NAHID RACHLIN
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Nahid Rachlin was born in Iran and immigrated to the United States to attend college. She is the author of four critically acclaimed novels – Jumping over Fire, Foreigner, Married to a Stranger and The Heart’s Desire – and, most recently, a memoir, Persian Girls, which was selected by Christopher Merrill as one of the four best books of 2006. Her many honors and awards include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University’s MFA program, a Doubleday Columbia Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Pen Syndicated Fiction Award.
She teaches at the New School University and is an associate fellow at Yale. |
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