Pauline Kaldas is the author of Looking Both Ways, a collection of essays, The Time Between Places, a collection of short stories, Letters from Cairo, a travel memoir, and Egyptian Compass, a collection of poetry. She also co-edited Dinarzad’s Children: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction. Her work has appeared in a variety of anthologies, including Inclined to Speak, Borderlands and Crossroads, Others Will Enter the Gates, and At Home: Essays on Place and Displacement. She was awarded a fellowship in fiction from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the Silver Award for Dinarzad’s Children from ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Awards, and the RAWI Creative Prose Award.
At MacDowell, Pauline made significant progress on her latest novel, a work that intertwines the lives of those who remain in their homeland with those who immigrate. The novel explores how these knots of identity and family loosen and tighten as we move across borders, through the lens of a family dealing with various members emigrating from Egypt to the United States.
