Date: 01/26/2010 - 05/11/2010

Time: 18:00 - 20:00

Location: 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011

Host: The New School University, School for General Studies (continuing Education)

Event Description: The course is open to credit and non-credit
Instructor: Nahid Rachlin
Bio :Website: http://www.nahidrachlin.com
Nahid Rachlin’s 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 short stories have appeared in many magazines, including The Virginia Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Redbook, Shenandoah. She has written reviews for New Times, Newsday, Los Angeles Times. She has held Doubleday-Columbia fellowship and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship (Stanford). The grants and awards she has received include, the Bennet Cerf Award, PEN Syndicated Fiction Project Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. She has written book reviews for New York Times, Washington Post and Newsday. Her own work has been widely and favorably reviewed. For more please click on my website: http://www.nahidrachlin.com

Contact: Info: 212 229 5620 212 229 5611