Nahid Rachlin

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Email: nahidr@rcn.com
BIO: Nahid Rachlin, born in Iran, came to the United States to attend college and stayed. Among her publications are 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 work has been published in Portuguese, Dutch, Italian, Farsi, Arabic. All her published books are currently in print in paperback editions and are available at chain stores as well as independent ones. They are also widely used in college courses.

Her individual short stories have appeared in more than fifty magazines, including The Virginia Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Redbook, Shenandoah, New Letters. They have been reprinted in several anthologies, including, Literature, The Human Experience, St. Martin's Press. Her essays have been published in Natural History Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series and in an anthology, How I Learned to Cook and other writings On Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships, Penguin. She has written reviews for the New York Times and Newsday.

While a student she held a Doubleday-Columbia fellowship and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship (Stanford). The grants and awards she has received include, the Bennet Cerf Award, PEN Syndicated Fiction Project Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Currently she teaches at the New School University and the Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y. She has taught at Yale University and Barnard College. She is an associate fellow at Yale.
The Writers conferences she has taught at include: Geneva,Switzerland Writers Conference, Paris Summer Writers conference, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Aspen, Taos, Southampton College, Hofstra University, Iowa University, Centrum, Marymount Manhattan College, Writers in Paradise, Florida, Antioch, Abroad Writers Conference, Rutgers.


She has given interviews including ones in Poet's and Writers Magazine, AWP Writers Chronicle, New York Times, Channel 13 (TV), Fora (TV), Connie Martinson Talks Books (TV), WHYY "voices in the family"(Radio), Teachers and Writers Collaborative "everything goes" on WNYE (Radio), Wisconsin Public Radio "conversations" (Radio), West Coast Live (Radio), BBC (NPR), All things Considered, Terry Gross, Fresh Air, (NPR), New Letters On The Air, (NPR), Pomegranate Gallery, WKDM (Radio), WNWK (Radio), WPBX (Radio), WFUV (Radio), WEEKDAY, KUOW (Radio) BAI, (NPR), WAMC, Bookshow (NPR) WKCR (Radio), WUSB (Radio), WNWK (Radio), KPFA (Radio), KRSI (Radio),KCBS (Radio), WPAT (Radio), Good Books WNYE (TV), channel 44 (TV). She has given readings in a wide variety of bookstores, schools, libraries, institutes around the country, including, KGB, Bowery Poetry Club, Stanford University, Boston University, New York University, Eckerd College, University of Rhode Island, University of California Irvine, University of Pennsylvania, State University of Pennsylvania, Three Rivers Community College, Writers in Paradise, Girls Write Now, New School University, Hammer Museum, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Yale, Books Inc, Harvard Club, Barnard College, Little Red School House, John Jay College, NYU Paris, Writer's Voice, Princeton, Queens Evening Reading Program, Deerfield Academy, Hadassah Annual Book-Author Luncheon, New York State Writers Institute, Skidmore College Writing Institute, The American Association of University Women, Great Neck Public Schools, City College, Marymount Manhattan College,Iran Center at Columbia, State University of New York at Buffalo, Fordham University, Barnard Forum Bookstore, Iranian Cultural Center, The Bronx Community College (The Literary Arts Center), Hofstra University, Hunter College, Erpf Center, Cornelia Street Cafe, Ohio University, Poly Prep, Black Oak Bookstore, Modern Times Bookstore, Elliot Bay Bookstore, San Francisco State University, UCLA Middle East Center, University of Washington Middle East Center, University of Texas at Austin, NYU Middle East Center, University of California in San Diego, PEN, Woodstock Guild, D.G.Wills Books, Montclair University, Jonathan Shorr Gallery, Mo Pitkin’s House of Satisfaction Carnegie Mellon, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, National Arts Club, George Washington University, SUNNY Farmingdale, Dutton Bookstore, Midnight Special Bookstore, University of Seattle Campus Bookstore, Barnes & Noble Bookstore, The San Francisco Bay Area Book Festival, Encore Bookstore, Borders Bookstores, Mills College, UC Long Beach, Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland, Hunter High School, Prairie Lights Bookstore, Columbia University, the International House, Manhattanville College, Southampton College, Hudson Valley Writer's Center, Women's club at Chautauqua, The Writers' Center, CUNY(Graduate Center), Manhattan College, Hope College Visiting Writers Series, A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery, PEN Book Group Initiative, Long Island University, University of New Mexico, Central College, Iowa, Half-King, Lindenwood University, Modern Times Bookstore, Book Passage, McNally Robinson, Women and Children Now, Virginia Festival of the Book, Nassau Community College, Brookdale Community College, Rutgers Universityk, Pen State, NYU (Paris), Village Voice Bookstore (Paris), Shakespeare Bookstore (Paris)