Mariam Pirbhai reads at St Jerome's Fri 12 Jan 4:30

[Tristanne Connolly]

We're delighted to announce the first Winter term reading in our Languages of Home series.

Please join us for a reading by Mariam Pirbhai on Friday 12 January at 4:30pm in SJ1 3027.

The readings are free and all are welcome. Please spread the word!

Mariam Pirbhai is the author of a debut short story collection titled Outside People and Other Stories (Inanna 2017), praised by award-winning novelist Shani Mootoo for its "clear-eyed compassion, generosity and literary brilliance." Her short fiction has also appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals, including Her Mother's Ashes: South Asian Women Writers in Canada and the United States, Pakistani Creative Writing in English, jaggerylit and the Dalhousie Review. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, and the President of CACLALS (the Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies), Canada's leading literary association devoted to postcolonial studies and global Anglophone literatures. She lives and works in Waterloo, Ontario.

Outside People and Other Stories (Inanna 2017) is Waterloo-based author Mariam Pirbhai's debut collection of short fiction, featuring the stories of the most "invisible" segments among Canada's "visible minority," as they navigate the Canadian or trans-national workforce against the backdrop of contemporary forces and debates, including equal employment opportunities, temporary migrant work, the transnational family, Islamophobia and forms of precarious citizenship.

Please visit The Reading Series at St Jerome's at http://canlitkicksass.blogspot.ca<http://canlitkicksass.blogspot.ca/>

Tristanne Connolly and Veronica Austen
English Department
St Jerome's University

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