Write Now! Presents: Sofia Mostaghimi

Sofia Mostaghimi is a Toronto-based Iranian Canadian fiction writer, who's debut novel DESPERADA is out now with Random House Canada. Her work has appeared in various magazines such as The Fiddlehead, the Ex-Puritan, Joyland Magazine, and the Hart House Review, as well as various anthologies such as Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood, and After Realism: 24 Stories for the 21st Century. Her excerpt of DESPERADA was long-listed for The Journey Prize, and her story, "The Day You Were Born," appeared in The Unpublished City, which was short-listed for The Toronto Book Awards. She likes to write about places, spaces, and the identities that mark them and are marked by them.

About Write Now!

This talk is part of Writing 2520A (Write Now! - Writers on Writing) offered by the Department of English & Writing Studies at Western University. Writing 2520A is organized around a series of lectures by writers. Every week, a new writer visits the class to read from their work, talk about their writing and their career, and answer questions. Guest lectures are open to Western students, staff and faculty.

For more information please visit: www.uwo.ca/writing.

Everyone is welcome!