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TITLE:

Women Crossing Borders: Writers Laila Lalami and Jessica Treat Read and Discuss Their Fiction

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Laila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco, Britain, and the United States. Her work has appeared in Mizna, The Baltimore Review, First Intensity, The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Review, The Oregonian, The Independent, The Nation, and will soon be anthologized. Her debut book of fiction, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits , was published by Algonquin Books in October 2005. She is also the editor of the literary blog Moorishgirl.com . She lives in Portland, Oregon. Jessica Treat’s collection of short-short stories, A Robber in the House (Coffee House Press) is in its second printing. She is also the author of Not a Chance, stories and novella (FC2, 2000), and the recipient of an Artist Fellowship Award in Fiction from the CT Commission on the Arts. Her work has appeared in Ms., Epoch, Double Room, Quarterly West, Web del Sol, Terra Incognita, 3rd Bed, and others. She is Associate Professor of English at Northwestern CT Community College and coordinator of the Mad River Literary Festival, now in its 9th year.

DATE:

Thursday, March02, 2006

TIME:

5:00pm to 6:15pm

LOCATION:

227 New Ingersoll

CONTACT:

nrenek@brooklyn.cuny.edu

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PRICE:

$Free

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