Creative Migrations

27th Annual Literary Festival
Old Dominion University
4-8 October 2004

NAHID RACHLIN

Nahid Rachlin came to the US for college from Iran. After college, she decided to stay, and now resides in New York City. She has published novels and short story collections, including The Heart's Desire, Married to a Stranger, and Foreigner. Her stories are widely published in national and international journals. Awards and grants include a Doubleday-Columbia fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, the Bennet Cerf Award, the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Rachlin is a strong female voice from an Iranian culture which tends to silence such voices. Her work depicts the abandonment and adoption of culture, the dangers of modernization, the Moslem faith, the freedom of women, the strong and fragile counterparts of individual identity, and the power of home. [extracted from 2004 brochure]

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