Nahid Rachlin
Nahid Rachlin’s 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 about fifty magazines, including The Virginia Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Redbook, and Shenandoah. She has written reviews and essays for The New York Times, Newsday, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times. She has held a Doubleday-Columbia fellowship (Columbia) and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship (Stanford). She has received grants and awards including the Bennet Cerf Award, PEN Syndicated Fiction Project Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Her work has been translated into Portuguese, Dutch, Arabic, and Farsi. She teaches at the New School University and is an Associate Fellow at Yale.
