Please Join us for Our:
40th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING & ELECTION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Sunday, January 9, 2022 @ 12:00pm
Long Island Marriott
101 James Doolittle Boulevard, Uniondale, NY 11553
Presentations include:
Differences & Similarities Between Writing Fiction vs Writing Memoir - with Nahid Rachlin, Iranian-American Novelist and Short Story Writer
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Non-Members: $50
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Nahid Rachlin (born 1946) is an Iranian-American novelist and short story writer. She has been called "perhaps the most published Iranian author in the United States".
In 1966, aged 17, Rachlin emigrated to the United States, gaining a BA at Lindenwood College. She married Howard Rachlin, a psychology professor, and in 1969 became a naturalized US citizen. In the early 1970s she pursued graduate study in creative writing, writing short stories for a class with Richard Humphries at Columbia University, and for a class with Donald Barthelme at City College of New York.
These stories won her the Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. In 1976 Rachlin returned to Iran for the first time in twelve years, drawing on the experience for her debut novel Foreigner.
Nahid Rachlin went to Columbia University Writing Program on a Doubleday-Columbia Fellowship and then went on to Stanford University writing program on a Wallace Stegner Fellowship. Her r publications include a memoir, PERSIAN GIRLS, four novels, JUMPING OVER FIRE, FOREIGNER, MARRIED TO A STRANGER, CROWD OF SORROWS, a novella, her individual short stories have appeared in many magazines, including Solstice Literary Magazine, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Humanities Review, Redbook, Shenandoah.
One of her stories was adopted by Symphony Space, "Selected Shorts," and was aired on NPR's around the country and three stories were nominated for Pushcart Prize. Her work has received favorable reviews in major magazines and newspapers and translated into Portuguese, Polish, Italian, Dutch, German, Czech, Arabic, and Persian. She has been interviewed in NPR stations such as Fresh Air, Poets and Writers magazine, Writers Chronicle.
She has taught creative writing at Barnard College, Yale University and at a wide variety of writer's conferences, including Paris Writers Conference, Geneva Writers Conference, and Yale Writers Conference.
She has been judge for several fiction awards and competitions, among them, Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction, sponsored by AWP, Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award sponsored by Poets & Writers, Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize, University of Maryland, English Dept.