Maryam Ala Amjadi
Iranian writer, literary translator, and researcher.
Wednesday, October 23, 2024 4-5:30 p.m.
Meridians is hosting 2024 Elizabeth Alexander Creative Writing Award Winner, Maryam Ala Amjadi, for a public reading and Q&A of her award-winning prose work, "The Ice Seller of Hell." Maryam Ala Amjadi is an Iranian poet, writer, and City of Asylum Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute (University of Nevada, Las Vegas). "The Ice Seller of Hell" will be published in Meridians' forthcoming fall 2024 issue, "Counterpoints."
Reading of “The Ice Seller of Hell” and Elizabeth Alexander Creative Writing Award Ceremony
Where Is the
Mouth of
That Word?
“I breathed. I looked up. I saw her standing in the line of fire, “simply standing/on the last line of this page”, asking, as she looked me in the eye, “Where are you reading from?” And that, dear readers, who are about to encounter Maryam’s poems for the first time, is the question.”– Sampurna Chattarji
Events
WENDY CHEN
A reading & conversation with
MARYAM ALA AMJADI
March 7 @ 7 pm - 8 pm
Around the World: Incorporating Translation into a Creative Writing Class
AWP2O25 - FRI 3/28, l:45-3PM
The Ice Seller of Hell
2024 ELIZABETH ALEXANDER
CREATIVE WRITING AWARD
WINNER FOR PROSE