Author: Nahid Rachlin

Nahid Rachlin went to Columbia University Writing Program on a Doubleday-Columbia Fellowship and then to Stanford University writing program on a Stegner Fellowship. Her publications include a memoir, Persian Girls (Penguin), four novels, among them, Jumping Over Fire (City Lights), Foreigner (W.W. Norton), Married to a Stranger (E.P.Dutton hardcover, City Lights, paperback). Her short stories have appeared in many magazines. One of her stories was adopted by Symphony Space, “Selected Shorts,” and was aired on NPR’s around the country and three of her stories were nominated for Pushcart Prize. Her work has been translated into Portuguese, Polish, Italian, Dutch, German, Arabic, and Persian. She has been interviewed on NPR stations such as All Things Considered (Terry Gross), and in magazines including, P&W, Writers Chronicle. She has written reviews and essays for New York Times, Newsday, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times. She gives talks and readings at libraries, bookstores, universities, high schools, museums.

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Lynn turned the pages of Tehran Daily as she sat behind the counter at Hafiz Hotel. Day after day, for a year now, she had been waiting for the news about the arrest of the person who put the bomb in the station wagon her husband was driving. What had ... Read More

Fiction / Nahid Rachlin