Maryam ALA AMJADI

2008 Resident
  • Asia
  • Southern Asia
  • Iran
Persian

Maryam ALA AMJADI is a leading young Iranian poet. She has worked as a Persian-to-English news interpreter at the Iranian Students News Agency in Tehran. Her collection of poetry, Me, I, and Myself was published in English and Persian in 2003, and more poems can be found in the Tehran Times Daily and the web magazine, Thanal. Awarded the silver medal in the 14th National Persian Literary Olympiad (2001), she is currently working towards her Masters Degree in English Literature at the University of Pune, India. She attends courtesy of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the US Department of State.

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  • We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.

  • Our congratulations to 1986 Fall Residency writer Kwame Dawes, who has been named the new poet laureate of Jamaica.

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