Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Zahir Janmohamed

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Fair Oaks, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2014

Zahir Janmohamed wrote a memoir about witnessing the 2002 Gujarat riots. He has received fellowships from the Norman Mailer Writers' Colony and the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Boston Review, The Nation, and The Guardian. He previously worked as a senior foreign policy aide in the US Congress and as the advocacy director for Amnesty International.

Studios

Mansfield

Zahir Janmohamed worked in the Mansfield studio.

The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Helen Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club. The small, shingled frame structure with stone foundation was originally fronted on the west side by a neat white picket fence and gate, a garden, and a stone pathway…

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