Saturday, November 8, 6pm
Reading and Book Signing Featuring:
Porochista Khakpour
Born in Tehran, raised in Los Angeles, she now lives in New York and currently teaches Fiction at Bucknell University. Khakpour's debut novel Sons and Other Flammable Objects was a New York Times "Editor's Choice," Chicago Tribune "Fall's Best," 2007 California Book Award winner, and Dylan Thomas Prize longlist selection is out in paperback this.
Roger Sedarat
His first poetry collection, Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic, won Ohio UP's Hollis Summers' Prize. Sedarat has also publishes scholarly articles on American and Middle Eastern literature. He teaches poetry and translation in the MFA program at Queens College, City University of New York.
Aphrodite Desiree Navab
She has published poetry and autobiographical essays, and her short story, a prose revisit of "Tales Left Untold" will be published in the forthcoming anthology edited by Ishmael Reed and Carla Blank, Powow: American Short Fiction from Then to Now.
Manijeh Nasrabadi
Her essay "Before I Knew Him" won the City University of New York Arts Gala Memoir Prize in 2005 and. "Souvenir," her essay on the challenges of seeing the self clearly, appeared in About Face. "Forest Fire." An essay on the intersection between Jewish and Zoroastrian cultures, will be appearing in the anthology Love and Pomegranates.
Co-sponsored by ArteEast and Association of Iranian American Writers.
@ The Workshop
16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor (btwn Broadway & 5th Avenue)
$5 suggested donation; open to the public
