Maryam Ala Amjadi: A Reading + Conversation
September 25 12:00 pm
UNLV's Beverly Rogers Literature and Law Building (RLL): Room 101
4505 S. Maryland Pkwy Las Vegas, NV 89154
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Maryam Ala Amjadi: A Reading + Conversation
About the Event
Please join us for a reading with Maryam Ala Amjadi. Following the reading, she will be in conversation with novelist and UNLV professor Doug Unger.
Maryam Ala Amjadi is an Iranian writer, translator, and researcher. She is the author of two poetry collections, a poetry chapbook, and the translator of a selection of Raymond Carver’s poems into Persian. She won the ‘Young Generation Poet’ Prize in the inaugural Yinchuan International Poetry Festival in China and was a writer-in-residence at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Her short story “The Ice Seller of Hell” won the 2024 Elizabeth Alexander Award and will be published in the Meridians journal (Duke University Press). Ala Amjadi was previously a writer for the Tehran Times Daily, where she founded and wrote a weekly page dedicated to the socio-cultural nuances of Iran. In 2017, she earned a joint PhD in interdisciplinary literary studies as an Erasmus Mundus fellow from Kent (UK) and Porto (Portugal) universities. Her poems and translations of contemporary Iranian poets have been anthologized internationally, and her poetry has been translated into multiple languages. Her most recent book, Where Is the Mouth of That Word? (Selected Poems) was published by Poetrywala in 2022.
Douglas Unger has authored five novels, including Leaving the Land, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, his newest, Dream City, and short fiction, Looking for War and Other Stories. He is co-founder of the Creative Writing International program at UNLV and serves on the executive board of Words Without Borders.
Parking/getting there: Daytime visitors to UNLV must use metered areas or display a valid permit to park their vehicles on campus. Green visitor/pay parking spaces are available in various lots throughout the campus, including several in Lot I which is the closest to our building. To find the Rogers Literature & Law Building, please turn onto East Harmon Ave and take it as far as you can into campus. For more information about parking at UNLV, please visit https://www.unlv.edu/parking/lots.
Questions? Please email blackmountaininstitute@unlv.edu or call (702) 895-5542.
This City of Asylum fellowship is supported by The Eleanor Kagi Foundation – A Lynn M. Bennett Legacy. This program is also supported in part by a grant from the Amazon Literary Partnership.