Join us for a reading with author Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi as he sits down with Alexandra Kleeman, faculty at the Creative Writing program on Tuesday, October 5th at 6pm EDT.

Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi is the author of the novel CALL ME ZEBRA (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018) which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the John Gardner Award, was long listed for the PEN Open Book Award, was an Amazon Best Book of the Year, A Publisher’s Weekly Bestseller and named a Best Book by over twenty publications. It is being translated into Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish and Romanian and was published in the UK by Alma Books, a division of Bloomsbury. She received a 2015 Whiting Writers' Award and was a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree for her debut novel, FRA KEELER (Dorothy, a publishing project, 2012). Her work has been supported by a Fulbright Fellowship, a MacDowell Fellowship and a Fellowship from Art OMI and has appeared in The ParisReview, GRANTA, Guernica, BOMB, and the Los Angeles Review of Books among other places. Her novel SAVAGE TONGUES is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2021. In 2022, her novella, N., about Napoleon’s exile in Elba will be released by Coffee House Press as part of their Spatial Species Series.

Presented by the Creative Writing Program at the Schools of Public Engagement.