Come hear readings from a few of its distinguished members: Taha Ebrahimi, Javad Mohsenian, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, and Solmaz Sharif.
open to the public
Bios:
• Saïd Sayrafiezadeh's stories and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, Open City and elsewhere. His memoir, When Skateboards Will Be Free, about growing up communist in the United States, will be published by Dial Press in March 2009.
• Taha Ebrahimi's award-winning writing has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, The Seattle Times, RIVET Magazine, Elan Magazine, Whitehot Magazine, "Keep It Real: Everything You Need to Know About Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction" (Norton, 2008) and is forthcoming in Love and Pomegranates: New Voices Celebrating Iran. She has been in residence at both Hedgebrook and the Millay Colony for the Arts, where she was also on the jury in 2008. She received her M.F.A. from the University of Pittsburgh where she also taught writing for three years. Originally from Seattle, Washington, she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
• Javad Mohsenian, M.D. was born and educated in Iran. He is a psychiatrist, poet and writer, in suburban Philadelphia. He wrote a best seller (Rahnemaye Kankoor), a guide to college entrance exams, published by Elmi, a major publishing company in Tehran. He has published two novels Persian Moonlight (Moore Publishing 1981) and 9/11 Children (Infinity 2008). He is currently working on a novel about Iran in the early 1950s.
• Born in exile, Solmaz Sharif completed degrees in Sociology and Women of Color Writers at U.C. Berkeley. While there, she studied and taught with June Jordan's Poetry for the People. She is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at New York University. Her first published poem, included in A World Between, was written at the age of 13. Since then, her work has appeared in Berkeley Poetry Review and numerous campus publications. Her readings include Bowery Poetry Club, Hunter College, and Pacifica Radio.
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