Hunter College Reading Series: Manijeh Nasrabadi, Caroline Conway, and Kym Ragusa

The Hunter College MFA in Creative Writing, directed by Peter Carey,  presents work by former graduates of the program.

Manijeh Nasrabadi, a graduate of Brown University, received an MFA in  Creative Nonfiction from Hunter College in 2007. She is a contributor to About Face: 25 Women Write About What They See When They Look in  the Mirror forthcoming from Seal Press in June. She is also a 2008  recipient of a Hedgebrook Writing Residency and is currently working  on a memoir about becoming a part of her extended family in Iran.  Jackson Heights, New York and her uncle's house in Tehran are where  she feels at home.

Caroline Conway co-edits the online journal RealPoetik with Ana Bozicevic-Bowling. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in LIT, New York Quarterly, ology, luzmag, and the Outside Voices 2008 Anthology of Younger Poets.

Kym Ragusa is the author of The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty and Belonging, published by W.W. Norton and Company in 2006.  Her essays have appeared in the anthologies Are Italians White: The  Making of Race in America and The Milk of Almonds, and the forthcoming About Face: Women Look in and Beyond the Mirror,  as well  as the journals Leggendaria and Tutte Storie. She is the recipient of  a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and an Ida and  Daniel Lang Award for Excellence in the Humanities. She has taught Creative Writing at City College, Queens College, and Eugene Lang  College in New York, and at Josai International University in Japan.  Her films, Passing and Fuori/Outside, have been shown on PBS and at  festivals throughout the North America and Europe. Her video, Demarcations, had its premiere at the Whitney Museum of American Art.  The Skin Between Us was named a finalist for the Hurston/Wright  Foundation's 2007 Legacy Award in Nonfiction, and will be published  in Italy in May, 2008. She currently teaches Nonfiction in the MFA program in Creative Writing at Queens University in Charlotte, North  Carolina.