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Keynote Speaker Masha Hamilton
Masha Hamilton is the author of
three novels: Staircase of a Thousand Steps, (2001) a
Booksense pick by independent booksellers and a Barnes & Noble
Discover Great New Writers selection; The Distance Between Us,
(2004) named one of the best books of the year by
Library Journal, and The Camel Bookmobile, (2007) also a Booksense
pick.
She worked as a foreign
correspondent for The Associated Press for five years in the Middle East, where
she covered the intefadeh, the peace process and the partial Israeli withdrawal
from Lebanon. Then she spent five years in Moscow, where she was a correspondent
for the Los Angeles Times, wrote a newspaper column, “Postcard from Moscow,” and
reported for NBC/Mutual Radio. She wrote about Kremlin politics as well as life
for average Russians under Gorbachev and Yeltsin during the coup and collapse of
the Soviet Union. She reported from Afghanistan in 2004, and in 2006 she
traveled in Kenya to research The Camel Bookmobile and to interview
street kids in Nairobi and drought and famine victims in the isolated northeast.
A Brown University graduate,
she has been awarded fiction fellowships from Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center, Squaw
Valley Community of Writers and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. She teaches
for
Gotham Writers’ Workshop and has also taught at the 92nd Street Y in New
York City and at a number of writers’ workshops around the country. (Photo
credit: Briana Orr).
More information at:
http://www.mashahamilton.com/index.php
Contact Dr. Michelle
Parkinson for more information.
Page last updated 11 Sept. 2007.
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