New Russian-American Writing (Panel and Discussion)

Event located in the Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall

Q&A and Reception to follow

David Bezmozgis, Anya Ulinich, and Lara Vapnyar

David Bezmozgis is an award-winning writer and filmmaker whose stories have appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, Harpers,Zoetrope All-Story, and The Walrus. His first book, Natasha and Other Stories, was published in 2004 in the US and Canada and was translated into fifteen languages. In 2006, he developed his first feature film, Victoria Day.

Anya Ulinich is the author of Petropolis (2008). She was awarded the Goldberg Prize for Emerging Writers of Jewish Fiction (2008), named a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature Finalist (2008), and included in the National Book Foundation's "5 under 35" (2007).

Lara Vapnyar emigrated from Russia to New York in 1994. She is the critically-acclaimed author of the novel Memoirs of a Muse (2006), and two short-story collections, Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love (2008) andThere Are Jews in My House (2004) and She teaches creative writing at New York University.