Dina Nayeri worked on her second novel, the story of an Iranian father and daughter reunited four times after decades of exile. Her first novel, A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea, was published by Riverhead Books in 2013 (and in a bunch of foreign countries). She was born in Iran, lived in refugee camps as a kid, spent some time as a businesswoman, moved to Amsterdam, became a French citizen, got divorced, went to the Iowa Writers Workshop, and, after a year in the Lower East Side, is pretty much mellowed out.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Dina Nayeri
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: Colchester, UK
MacDowell Fellowships: 2014
More:
www.dinanayeri.com
Studios
Calderwood
Dina Nayeri worked in the Calderwood studio.
In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Burr-McCallum Architects of Williamstown, MA, provided the award-winning design in 1999; and the construction of the handsome studio was completed in time for its first artist to arrive early in 2000. With a series of double-hung casement…