Fact and Fiction
Nahid
Rachlin was born in Iran but has been here since she came to the U.S.
to attend college, and she writes and publishes in English. Her four novels
include Jumping Over the Lake, Foreigner, Married to
a Stranger, and The Heart's Desire, and she has a collection
of short stories, Veils. Her memoir, Persian Girls, was
just published by Penguin. Her stories have appeared in more than fifty
journals from Prairie Schooner to Redbook, and her essays
have also been published widely.
Her grants and awards include the Bennett Cerf Award, PEN Syndicated Fiction Project Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. She has taught at Yale, Barnard, and a variety of summer writers conferences and she currently teaches at the New School and the 92nd Street Y.
Sigrid Nunez has published five novels, A Feather on the Breath of God, Naked Sleeper, Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury, For Rouenna, and her latest, The Last of Her Kind. Her work has also appeared in several anthologies, including two Pushcart Prize volumes and four anthologies of Asian-American literature. A Feather on the Breath of God was a finalist for both the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction and the Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers Award. It also received the Association for Asian American Studies Award for best novel of the year. Nunez was the 2000-2001 Rome Prize Fellow in Literature at the American Academy in Rome and in 2003 was elected as a Literature Fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2005 she was the Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.
The reading is preceded by a panel discussion for writers (click here for details).
Sigrid Nunez photo by Mike Minehan, Berlin
All readings include a question & answer period and a reception with books by the author(s) for sale.
Suggested
Donation: $5 ($3 for HVWC members and those under age 18)
Programs and events at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center are made possible, in part, by grants from the Bydale Foundation, the David G. Taft Foundation, the Orchard Foundation, and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by the Basic Program Support Grant of the Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government.