Written Arts Program Presents

A Reading with Zain Khalid

On Monday, September 23 at 6pm in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), Bard Fiction Prize winner Zain Khalid will read from his work. Introduced by Writer in Residence, Benjamin Hale, the reading is free and open to the student body. There will be a reception at 5:30pm in RKC before the reading. 

Zain Khalid is an American writer and novelist, originally from New York. His debut novel, Brother Alive, won the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and the CLMP Firecracker Award in Fiction, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for best first book in any genre, and was shortlisted for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. His writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, n+1, Bookforum and elsewhere. He is an associate editor at The Drift and a contributing editor at Bidoun.

Read more about Zain Khalid's work here. 

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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium

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