Nahid Rachlin

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Nahid Rachlin attended Columbia University MFA program on a Doubleday-Columbia Fellowship and then went on to Stanford University MFA 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 short stories have appeared in more than fifty magazines, including The Virginia Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Redbook, Shenandoah. 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, Spanish, 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.
She had given readings (some coming up) in a wide variety of bookstores, universities, libraries, institutes, including, Mid-Manhattan Library, Princeton Public Library, Stanford University, Hammer Museum (LA), New York University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Yale, Harvard Club, Loyola College, Barnard College, Princeton, West Side WMCA, Queens Evening Reading Program, McGregor-Antioch, Deerfield Academy, D.G. Wills (San Diego),New York State Writers Institute, Girls Write Now, Skidmore College Writing Institute, City College, Marymount Manhattan College, State University of New York at Buffalo, Fordham University, Hofstra University, Hunter College, Ohio University, Black Oak Bookstore (Berkeley), Books Inc, Modern Times Bookstore (SF), Elliot Bay Bookstore (Seattle), San Francisco State University, UCLA Middle East Center, University of Washington Middle East Center, University of Texas at Austin, NYU Middle East Center, University of California in San Diego, Bowling Green State University, PEN, Carnegie Mellon, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, National Arts Club, George Washington University, SUNNY Farmingdale, Dutton Bookstore (L.A.), Midnight Special Bookstore (L.A.), University of Seattle Campus Bookstore, Barnes & Noble Bookstores, The San Francisco Bay Area Book Festival, Encore Bookstore, Borders Bookstores,University of Maryland, Hunter High School, Prairie Lights Bookstore, Columbia University, the International House, Manhattanville College, Southampton College, The Writers’ Center (D.C.), CUNY(Graduate Center), Hope College, (Michigan), Boston University, PEN Book Group Initiative (at several locations), Long Island University, University of New Mexico, Lindenwood University, Hudson Valley Writer’s Center, little Red School and Elizabeth Irwin High School, Montclaire State University, University of Rhode Island, Lindenwood University, Montclaire State University, University of Rhode Island, Pennsylvania State University, New School University, Women and Children First bookstore, McNally Robinson Bookstore, Virginia Festival of the Books, Nassau Community College, Brookdale Community College, John Jay College, public library in Princeton, Asian-American Workshop-readings, Rutgers (Camden), International Center, Wellesley College, Delaware County Community College, Purdue University, Western Carolina University Writers Festival, Wells College, Pacific University (Oregan), Utah Valley University, The College of New Jersey, St. Francis College, U of Michigan Dearborn, Ford Foundation Community College, St. Olaf’s College, Stone Coast Writers Conference at the University of Southern Maine, Western Connecticut University. Muse and the Marketplace(Grub Street), Boston. Syracuse Downtown Writers Center, New York University McGhee Division .
In Europe: Shakespeare Bookstore (Paris), Village Voice Bookstore (Paris), NYU Paris, Geneva conference, Jagelonian University (Krakow), John Cabot (Rome), book tour in Germany, covering several universities and institutes in different cities, including Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Tuebingen, Augsburg, Heidelberg.