{"id":1534,"date":"2021-08-01T23:24:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T23:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2021-09-14T18:53:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T18:53:22","slug":"sheba-karim-and-didi-jackson-reading-sept-9th-7-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/sheba-karim-and-didi-jackson-reading-sept-9th-7-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"(9\/9\/2021)Sheba Karim and Didi Jackson Reading: 7 PM | 101 Buttrick Hall | Face masks required"},"content":{"rendered":"

September 9th, 7PM:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Sheba Karim, Fiction\u00a0<\/strong>&\u00a0<\/strong>Didi Jackson,<\/strong>\u00a0Poetry<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"TheSheba Karim<\/b> is the author of the YA novels\u00a0Skunk Girl<\/em>,\u00a0That Thing We Call a Heart<\/em>, which made several Best Book lists including, Bank Street and Kirkus, and\u00a0Mariam Sharma Hits the Road<\/em>, which was named an NPR Best Book of the Year, and The Marvelous Mirza Girls<\/em> (May 2021). Her fiction and essays have been featured in\u00a0580 Split, Asia Literary Review, Femina, India Today, Literary Hub, Off Assignment, Shenandoah, South Asian Review, The Rumpus, Time Out Delhi<\/em>,<\/em>\u00a0<\/i>and in several anthologies in the United States and India. She has an MFA from the Iowa Writers\u2019 Workshop and is a Writer-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University. https:\/\/www.shebakarim.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"MoonDidi Jackson<\/b> is the author of Moon Jar (Red Hen Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Jackson\u2019s poems have been selected for the Best American Poetry Series and Poem-a-Day by the Academy of American Poets. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Vanderbilt University.\u00a0 https:\/\/didijackson.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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For more information on the Gertrude & Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For a downloadable and printable poster advertising all visiting writer events for AY 2021\/2022, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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