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.