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Acclaimed novelist Farnoosh Moshiri may call Tehran, Iran her birthplace, but she calls the University of Houston home. “It's very nostalgic for me to be reading at UH. I love every inch of this university,” said Moshiri, an alumnus of UH’s Creative Writing Program (CWP), who will read from her works “Against Gravity” and “The Bathhouse” at 6 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 19 in the Honors College Commons on the second level of M.D. Anderson Library. Moshiri is the latest author to be featured in the Inprint Studio Reading Series, which is sponsored by CWP and Inprint Inc. in association with DiverseWorks and the Honors College. The series offers literary readings in intimate venues to allow audiences close interaction with some of the country’s brightest writers and their works. All readings are free and open to the public. “Seeing an author up close, listening to stories and poems and being able to ask questions are memorable moments for the audience,” Moshiri explained. “Events like this show that writers are approachable and down to earth.” Moshiri fled Iran in 1983 after the incarcerations of secular intellectuals, feminists and political activists. In 1987, she settled in Houston. She is a past recipient of the Barthelme Memorial Fellowship and authored the novel “At the Wall of the Almighty” and the short story collection “The Crazy Dervish and the Pomegranate Tree”. This is the first year, CWP and Inprint, Inc. are presenting the Inprint Studio Reading Series. Upcoming readings will feature more CWP alumni including Andrew Feld, Pimone Triplett and Emily Fox Gordon. For more information on these readings, visit http://www.inprint-inc.org/StudioSeries.htm.
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