- Source: Elizabeth Eslami
Elizabeth Eslami is an Iranian American writer of novels, essays, and short stories.
Life
Elizabeth Eslami was born in Gaffney, South Carolina. She received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and her MFA from the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. Her debut novel, Bone Worship, appeared in 2010. Her essays, short stories, and travel writing have appeared or are forthcoming in The Sun, The Literary Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Millions, Matador Network and others. She is a frequent contributor to The Nervous Breakdown. Her work is also featured in the anthologies Tremors: New Fiction By Iranian American Writers (2013) and Writing Off Script: Writers on the Influence of Cinema (2011).
Eslami was awarded the 2013 Ohio State University Short Fiction Prize for her collection of short stories, Hibernate, which was also a finalist for the 2011 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
Eslami taught Creative Writing at Indiana University from 2014-2016. She is now the Hampton and Esther Boswell Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at DePauw University.
Awards
2013 Ohio State University Short Fiction Prize for Hibernate
Works
Bone Worship. NY: Pegasus Books. 2010. ISBN 1605980749.
Writing Off Script: Writers on the Influence of Cinema. Calavera Books. 2011.
Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian American Writers. University of Arkansas Press. 2013.
Hibernate. Ohio State University Press. 2014.
References
External links
Eslami's website
Book review and interview, Bend Bulletin (OR)
Review of Bone Worship in Boston Globe
Review of Bone Worship in NW Asian Weekly
Review of Bone Worship in Eugene Weekly
Appearance at Nye Beach Writers' Series, 2012
Interview with Eslami
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Hijab
- Daftar negara berdaulat
- Elizabeth Eslami
- Gaffney, South Carolina
- Sarah Lawrence College
- Iranian revolution
- Majlis
- Morteza Motahhari
- Women in Iran
- Vascular surgery
- National Council of Resistance of Iran
- Nuclear program of Iran
