Events/News

Recent Recognition

February 13th, 2014

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”

Photo of the Carnegie Corporation's "Immigrants: The Pride of America" posterPorochista 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

Screenshot of NY Op-Ed 9/11 article, featuring Porochista Khakpour

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.