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Laleh Khadivi
October 15, 2019 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm PDT
Tuesday, October 15, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room
- Laleh Khadivi was born in Esfahan, Iran. She is the author of three novels that form an interconnected trilogy about nationalism, belonging, and migration. Khadivi is the recipient of the Whiting Award for Fiction, the Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers Award, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and a Pushcart Prize. Her debut documentary film 900 WOMEN aired on A&E and premiered at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Sun, and other publications. She is an alumni of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Mills College and a professor at the University of San Francisco.