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Fatima Farheen Mirza is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has been awarded the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Creative Achievement from UC Riverside as well as a fellowship from the Michener-Copernicus Society of America.
In residence, she worked on completing a second draft of her debut novel.
Fatima Mirza worked in the Star studio.
Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…