NOVELIST, UH ALUM FARNOOSH MOSHIRI FEATURED
IN INPRINT STUDIO READINGS
Acclaimed novelist Farnoosh Moshiri may call Tehran, Iran her birthplace,
but she calls the University of Houston home.
“It's very nostalgic for me to be reading at UH. I love every
inch of this university,” said Moshiri, an alumnus of UH’s
Creative Writing Program (CWP), who will read from her works “Against
Gravity” and “The Bathhouse” at 6 p.m., Thursday,
Oct. 19 in the Honors College Commons on the second level of M.D.
Anderson Library.
Moshiri is the latest author to be featured in the Inprint Studio
Reading Series, which is sponsored by CWP and Inprint Inc. in association
with DiverseWorks and the Honors College. The series offers literary
readings in intimate venues to allow audiences close interaction
with some of the country’s brightest writers and their works.
All readings are free and open to the public.
“Seeing an author up close, listening to stories and poems
and being able to ask questions are memorable moments for the audience,”
Moshiri explained. “Events like this show that writers are
approachable and down to earth.”
Moshiri fled Iran in 1983 after the incarcerations of secular intellectuals,
feminists and political activists. In 1987, she settled in Houston.
She is a past recipient of the Barthelme Memorial Fellowship and
authored the novel “At the Wall of the Almighty” and
the short story collection “The Crazy Dervish and the Pomegranate
Tree”.
This is the first year, CWP and Inprint, Inc. are presenting the
Inprint Studio Reading Series. Upcoming readings will feature more
CWP alumni including Andrew Feld, Pimone Triplett and Emily Fox
Gordon. For more information on these readings, visit http://www.inprint-inc.org/StudioSeries.htm.
WHAT: |
Inprint Studio Reading
Series |
WHEN: |
6 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 19 |
WHERE: |
Honors College Commons
M.D. Anderson Library, Level 2
Entrance 1 |
WHO: |
University of Houston Creative Writing
Program, Inprint, Inc. |
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