When: January 7
Where: 181 White Street, Danbury, CT 06810
What Time: 7pm
Event Information: For more information please visit www.nahidrachlin.com

This event is open and free to the public.

Come enjoy a reading of the memoir Persian Girls with Nahid Rachlin, on January 7 at Western Connecticut State University.

     PEN Member, Nahid Rachlin attended Columbia University MFA program on a Doubleday-Columbia Fellowship and then went on to Stanford University program on a Stegner Fellowship. Her publications include a memoir, PERSIAN GIRLS (Penguin), four novels, JUMPING OVER FIRE (City Lights), FOREIGNER (W.W. Norton), MARRIED TO A STRANGER (E.P.Dutton), THE HEART'S DESIRE (City Lights), and a collection of short stories, VEILS (City Lights). Her individual stories have appeared in about fifty magazines. One of her stories was produced by Symphony Space, “Selected Shorts” and was aired on NPR’s around the country.
    Her work has received favorable reviews in major magazines and newspapers and translated into Portuguese, Dutch, Arabic, and Farsi. She  has written reviews and essays for New York Times, Newsday, Washington Post and  Los Angeles Times.  In addition to Doubleday-Columbia Fellowship (Columbia) and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship (Stanford) she received other grants and awards, including the Bennet Cerf Award, PEN Syndicated Fiction Project Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant.
    She has been interviewed in magazines such as Poets & Writers and AWP Writers Chronicle, and TV such as Channel 13, and on NPR’s such as Fresh Air, Terry Gross, All Things Considered. For more please click on her website: http://www.nahidrachlin.com