Afghan Americana: An Intimate Geopolitical Memoir (Literary Memoir) represented by Ayesha Pande Literary
Afghan Americana: An Intimate Geopolitical Memoir captures a historical moment largely absent from US cultural memory and American publishing, contributing to a new American history urgently relevant to our present moment and reframing everything we thought we knew about Afghanistan, U.S. foreign policy, and the mythologies of family.
Leila C. Nadir is an award-winning writer, social practice artist, creative educator, and literary editor. Her work appears in museums and galleries, in forests, classrooms, and kitchens, and in
scholarly and literary journals, including Salon, Michigan Quarterly Review, Black Warrior Review, North American Review, Asian American Literary Review, Aster(ix), and elsewhere. Her writing has been named “Notable” in Best American Essays 2024 and has earned awards and fellowships from MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Art Omi, Bread Loaf, de Groot Foundation, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and Maine Arts Commission. She founded one of the first Environmental Humanities academic programs in the nation and ran it for ten years before joining the editorial team of Los Angeles Review of Books. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Columbia University.
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