upcoming:

Exberliner Meets Borderlines reading

Posted January 29th, 2012

Leipzig Book Fair

Posted October 4th, 2011

14:30-15:00pm, March 18, 2012 Leipzig, Germany (Leipzig liest Forum International, Halle 4, Stand C504)

RECENT NEWS

Posted April 4th, 2010

2012 NEA Award

Porochista Khakpour has been awarded a 2012 National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) Literature fellowship in Creative Writing (Prose).

Carnegie Corporation Celebrates “Immigrants: The Pride of America”

Porochista Khakpour is featured among 45 international public figures celebrated as “Americans by Choice” by the Carnegie Corporation of New York (full-page public service announcement in the Fourth of July edition of the New York Times.)

New York Times 9/11 Op Ed Moment video

Porochista Khakpour is featured alongside three other NYT 9/11 Op Ed writers (Tom Brokaw, Joseph S. Nye, and Daniel Libeskind), reflecting on the making of her 2010 NYT Op Ed.

previous appearances:

Washington DC (Politics & Prose and The Modernist Society joint event, PEN/Faulkner Reading Series, AWP 2011); Baltimore (Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars); New York (National Arts Club, Barnes & Noble, KGB Reading Series, Happy Ending Reading Series, Enclave Reading Series, Half King Reading Series, Pacific Standard Reading Series, McNally Robinson Books, Pete’s Candy Store Reading Series, Sarah Lawrence College, Sarah Lawrence College Alumni Night at AWP 2008, The New School, Brooklyn Book Festival 2008, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, 440 Gallery, Open Society Institute, International Center, Bronxville Library, Pageturner Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music); Los Angeles (Vroman’s Bookstore, Dutton’s Brentwood Books, UC Irvine Association of Iranian American Writers Conference, Vermin on the Mount Reading Series); San Francisco (Black Oak Books, California Book Awards Ceremony 2008); Chicago (Bookslut Reading Series, Northwestern University); Cincinnati (keynote speaker at University of Cincinnati’s 2008 Ropes Lecture Series on “Violence and Literature: The Humanities in Post 9/11 America”); Sewanee, TN (Sewanee Writers’ Conference Fellows Reading), Amherst, MA (Amherst College Reading Series); Metuchen, NJ (The Raconteur Books); Lewisburg, PA (Page after Page Bookshop, Bucknell University Stadler Center Reading Series); Cleveland (Imagination Conference); Virginia (VCCA, University of Virginia, Washington and Lee University, Old Dominion University Literary Festival); Santa Fe, NM (Santa Fe University of Art and Design, School for Advanced Research, Granta 116 at Collected Works); Vancouver (Simon Fraser University, West Vancouver Memorial Library); Germany (US Embassy Literature Series, Berlin; US Consulate Reading, Leipzig)