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29 June 2016 at
6pm: Jennifer
K Dick (poet), Ayana Mathis (novelist), Michelle Huneven (nonfiction writer),
and Nahid Rachlin (novella/short story author)
will read at Berkeley Books of Paris for the Paris Writers Workshop Faculty
Reading. Berkeley Books, 8 rue Casimir Delavigne, 75006 Paris. M° Odéon or RER
B
I will be reading entirely new work from the manuscript That Which I
Touch Has No Name, completed this June. In fact, I will be reading from the
last section I finished while in Amsterdam just a few weeks ago--so will be
testing the waters.
So I hope you can join me/us for this event!
So I hope you can join me/us for this event!
Reader BIOS:
Avana Mathis is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing for the Iowa Writers' Workshop. The Twelve Tribes Of Hattie, her first novel, was a New York Times Bestseller, a 2013 New York Times Notable Book of the Year, an NPR Best Book of 2013 and was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as the second selection for Oprah’s Book Club 2.0.She has also been a frequent contributor for the N.Y. Times Book Review, the Financial Times, Esquire, and The Atlantic.
Avana Mathis is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing for the Iowa Writers' Workshop. The Twelve Tribes Of Hattie, her first novel, was a New York Times Bestseller, a 2013 New York Times Notable Book of the Year, an NPR Best Book of 2013 and was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as the second selection for Oprah’s Book Club 2.0.She has also been a frequent contributor for the N.Y. Times Book Review, the Financial Times, Esquire, and The Atlantic.
Michelle Huneven has published
a nonfiction book, The Tao Gals Guide to Real Estate, and four
novels. Her short fiction has been published in Harpers, Redbook, and Ms.
magazine. She has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Antioch College,
and Bennington College, and is currently a lecturer at UCLA.
Nahid Rachlin’s publications
include a memoir, Persian Girls; four novels, Jumping Over Fire,
Foreigner, Married To A Stranger, The Heart’s Desire;
and a collection of short stories, Veils. Her novella, Crowd of
Sorrows, and individual short stories have appeared in more than fifty
magazines. She has taught for Barnard College, Yale University and for various
workshops in Europe such as the PWW and the Geneva Writers' Conference.
Jennifer K Dick is the author of Circuits
(2013), Enclosures (2007), Florescence (2004) and 5 chapbooks.
Her collaborative projects include the live show Traces de son amant qui
s’en va (2015) and Le Moulin Collectif, including vocal appearance
in Gilles Weinzaepflan’s film Le Moulin: https://vimeo.com/101581345.
She is Maître de Conférences at the Université de
Haute Alsace in Mulhouse, France.
see the PWW Master Class Faculty page:
https://pariswritersworkshop.org/events/faculty/
