Jayanti Tamm Reads From her New Memoir
Monday February 7, 5pm
Rosenthal Library, President’s Conference Room, 5th Floor
Jayanti Tamm is a visiting professor in the MFA Program and the English Department at Queens College. She received her MFA in Creative Writing at American University in Washington, DC, where she studied fiction and playwriting. Following graduation, she had a number of stories published in literary journals in North America. In 2000, she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In 2005, her one-act play, The Suicide Bomber won the New England Academy of Theatre One Act Play Award. In 2009, Random House published her memoir, Cartwheels in a Sari: A Memoir of Growing Up Cult, which received glowing reviews. In December, the book was released as a paperback.
A reception will follow the reading, and books will be for sale.
Contact MFA Director Nicole Cooley at ncooley@qc.edu for more information.
