Nahid Rachlin

BIO

Nahid Rachlin attended Columbia University writing 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-City Lights), 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 adopted by Symphony Space, “Selected Shorts,” was read at the Getty Museum, LA, and was aired on NPR’s around the country.

Her work has been widely and favorably reviewed in major magazines and newspapers and translated into Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Italian, Arabic, and Persian. 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 teaches creative writing workshops in a variety of conferences, including the Paris Summer Writers Workshop, Geneva, Switzerland Writers Conference, Art International in Assisi, Italy, Antioch Writers Workshop, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Iowa Festival Writers Conference, Vermont College Postgraduate Writers Conference, Yale Summer Writers Conference, Sanibel Island Writers Conference. She taught at Barnard College as a writer-in-residence and at Yale University seminar programs for several semesters. Currently she teaches creative writing at the New School University.

INTERVIEWS
in a variety of venues, including in New York Magazine.com, Poets and Writers magazine, AWP Writers Chronichle, Northern Michigan U ( NPRI New York Times, Channel 13 (TV), Terry Gross on All Things Considered, Fresh Air, (NPR), Wisconsin Public Radio, New Letters On The Air, NPR, Pomegranate Gallery, Fora (TV), Teachers and Writers Collaborative “everything goes” WNYE (Radio), Wisconsin Public Radio “Conversations” (Radio), Connie Martinson Talks Books (TV), West Coast Live (Radio), BBC (Radio), WFUV (Radio), "WEEKDAY, KUOW radio) BAI (NPR), WAMC Book show (NPR), WKCR (Radio), “Voices in the Family,” WHYY (Radio), WUSB (Radio), WNWK (Radio), KPFK (Radio), KPFA (Radio), KRSI radio, Good Books WNYE (TV), channel 44 (TV), WPBX (radio).

READINGS often as guest speaker or keynote speaker in MFA programs, English departments, writers conferences and a wide variety of bookstores, schools, libraries, institutes, including, Mid-Manhattan Library, Princeton Public Library, KGB, Bowery Poetry Club, Stanford University, Hammer Museum (LA), New York University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Yale, Harvard Club, Fireplace Literary Club, Womanspace, Loyola College, Barnard College, Princeton, West Side WMCA, Queens Evening Reading Program, McGregor-Antioch, Deerfield Academy, Hadassah Annual Book-Author Luncheon (L.I.), D.G. Wills (San Diego), Petescandy Store (Brooklyn) New York State Writers Institute, Girls Write Now, Skidmore College Writing Institute, The American Association of University Women, Great Neck Public Schools, City College, Marymount Manhattan College, State University of New York at Buffalo, Fordham University, Barnard Forum Bookstore, Iranian Cultural Center (D.C.), Manhattan Community College, The Bronx Community College (The Literary Arts Center), Hofstra University, Hunter College, Erpf Center, Cornelia Street Cafe, Ohio University, Poly Prep, 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, Woodstock Guild, Carnegie Mellon, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture & University of California, Irvine, 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, Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland, Hunter High School, Prairie Lights Bookstore, Columbia University, the International House, Manhattanville College, Southampton College, Women’s club at Chautauqua, The Writers’ Center (D.C.), CUNY(Graduate Center), Hope College, (Michigan), Boston University, Gathering of the Tribes Gallery, 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, Pete’s Candy Bar, Sunday Salon, Iran Center at Columbia University, University of Rhode Island, Lindenwood University, Hudson Valley Writer’s Center, little Red School and Elizabeth Irwin High School, Montclaire State University, Pete’s Candy Bar, Sunday Salon, Iran Center at Columbia University, University of Rhode Island, Jonathan Shorr Gallery, Mo Pitkin’s House of Satisfaction, Jonathan Shorr Gallery, Mo Pitkin’s House of Satisfaction, New School University, Women and Children First bookstore, McNally Robinson Bookstore, Bluestockings Bookstore, Half-King bar and Grill, Virginia Festival of the Books, Nassau Community College, Brookdale Community College, John Jay College, Pen State, Prose Pro, 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, University of Michigan Dearborn, Henry Ford Community College, St. Olaf College, Stone Coast Writers Conference at the University of Southern Maine, Western Connecticut University. Art International Assisi, Italy, Muse and the Marketplace, Boston. Syracuse Downtown Writers Center, New York University McGhee Division, Northern Michigan University, Miami U, Oxford, OH, Sierra Nevada College, Claflin U (Pedagogy Conference).
In Europe: Shakespeare Bookstore (Paris), Village Voice Bookstore (Paris), NYU Paris , Geneva conference (Geneva), book tour in Germany (covering several universities and institutes in different cities, including Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Tuebingen, Augsburg, Heidelberg), Jagelonian University (Krakow), John Cabot University, Rome.