Creative Writing Program

Faculty

Laleh Khadivi

Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction

N110 Callaway Center
Creative Writing Program
Emory University
537 Kilgo Circle
Atlanta, GA 30322

404-727-8772 (Office)
404-727-4672 (Fax)
lkhadiv@emory.edu (e-mail)

Spring 2008 office hours:

Monday 12-1:30 p.m.
and by appointment

Laleh Khadivi, the 2007-2009 Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction, holds a BA from Reed College and an MFA in fiction from Mills College. Primarily a fiction writer, her work has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine's special issue on "Emerging Writers" and The Concord Review. Her first novel, The Age of Orphans, will be published by Houghton Mifflin in Spring 2009.

She has also directed and produced extensively in documentary film, covering topics as far-ranging as the American criminal justice system, women in prison, and life and culture in Brazil. She has been the recipient of a Soros Foundation Award, the Carl Djerassi Fellowship in Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin, and a Paul Robeson Foundation Grant. Ms. Khadivi was born in Esfahan, Iran.

Visit the official website for Laleh Khadivi's documentary 900 Women at http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c521.shtml

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