When: Spring 2012 semester (15 sessions, beginning January 24th)
Where: The New School, 66 West 12th Street New York, NY 10011
What Time: Tuesdays at 6pm-7:50 PM
Event Information: Advanced Fiction Workshop NWRW 4329 A is open to credit and non credit. Call (212) 229-5620, follow this link, or call the Writing Department at (212) 229-5611 for more information.

For more information on Nahid Rachlin please visit www.nahidrachlin.com.

PEN Member Nahid Rachlin will be running the spring-term Advanced Fiction Workship for The New School's Continuing Education program in New York City.

     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