Taran N Khan is a journalist and non-fiction writer based in Mumbai. Her first book – worked on at MacDowell in 2014 – is Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul, and was published by Chatto& Windus (UK) and Penguin Random House (India). In 2020 it won the Tata Literature Live! First Book Award for non fiction, and in 2021 won the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year prize. Taran's works have appeared in publications including Guernica, Al Jazeera, the Caravan, and Himal Southasian. Her work has received support from MacDowell, the Jan Michalski Foundation for Writing and Literature, and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, among others.
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Taran Khan
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Region: Aligarh Uttar Pradesh, INDIA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2014
Studios
Star
Taran Khan 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…