Thursday, September 22, 2022 at 7:00 PM
SCHEDULE CHANGE: Please note we have two guest speakers for September, scheduled on the second and fourth Thursday. This meeting is on the 4th Thursday of September.
Join us in welcoming Naseem Jamnia to discuss their newest upcoming work, The Bruising of Qilwa. In this intricate fantasy novella, a non-binary refugee practitioner of blood magic finds a strange disease that causes political rifts in their new homeland. Persian-American author Jamnia is a vital new voice who has crafted a gripping narrative layered with themes of persecution, healing, and family.
Naseem Jamnia is a former neuroscientist and recent MFA graduate from the University of Nevada, Reno. Their work has appeared in the Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, The Rumpus, The Writer’s Chronicle, and other venues. Jamnia is a 2018 Bitch Media Fellow in Technology and a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow in Young Adult Fiction, and they recently received the 2021 inaugural Samuel R. Delany Fellowship.
In addition to cowriting the academic text Positive Interactions with At-Risk Children, Jamnia’s work has been included in the Lambda Literary EMERGE anthology (2020) and We Made Uranium! And Other True Stories from the University of Chicago’s Extraordinary Scavenger Hunt. A Persian-Chicagoan and child to Iranian immigrants, Jamnia now lives in Reno with their husband, dog, and two cats.
Find out at more at www.naseemwrites.com and on Twitter and Instagram at @jamsternazzy.
