BIO

Manijeh Nasrabadi received her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Hunter College. Her essay “Before I Knew Him” won the City University of New York Arts Gala Memoir Prize in 2005. She was a Hertog Fellow that same year and a 2008 recipient of a Hedgebrook writing residency. “Souvenir,” her essay on the challenges of seeing the self clearly, appears in About Face, published by Seal Press in June 2008. Look out for her article on second-generation Iranian-American writers in the April issue of Hyphen Magazine. She is co-director of the Association of Iranian-American writers, a growing professional network that promotes both established and emerging voices. She teaches creative writing at Hunter College and travels annually to Iran.

 

 

 


M. N. atop a defunct Zoroastrian Fire Temple built circa 425 B.C.
(© M.N. 2004)