Underland Gallery Reading Series: Sept 21, 2023
Murzban F. Shroff is a Mumbai-based writer. He has published his fiction with over 75 literary journals in the U.S. and UK. His stories have appeared in journals such as The Gettysburg Review, The Minnesota Review, The Saturday Evening Post, Chicago Tribune, and World Literature Today. His non-fiction has appeared in India Abroad, The New Engagement, and The American Scholar. Shroff is the recipient of the John Gilgun Fiction Award and the Bacopa Review Fiction Award 2022. He has garnered seven Pushcart Prize nominations, the highest award for the short story in the U.S. His short story collection, Breathless in Bombay, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in the best debut category from Europe and South Asia, and rated by the Guardian as among the ten best Mumbai books. His novel, Waiting for Jonathan Koshy, was a finalist for the Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize and has been published in India and China. His third book, Fasttrack Fiction, serves up a collection of literary nuggets for the digital reader. Shroff’s fourth book, Third Eye Rising, won high praise from five renowned American authors and featured on the Esquire list of Best Books of 2021. Shroff has been a speaker at several international venues, such as the London Short Story Festival (2015), the Irrawaddy Literary Festival in Myanmar (2017 and 2109), and the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature in Dubai (2019). He was invited to speak about his work at the Gandhi Memorial Center in Bethesda, the University of California Los Angeles, California State University Monterey Bay, the Institute for South Asia Studies at UC Berkeley, St. Mary’s College Moraga, the Annenberg School for Communications & Journalism at the University of Southern California, and the Rocky Mountain Modern Languages Association Convention hosted by the University of Wyoming. Shroff’s novel, Waiting for Jonathan Koshy, was published in 2022 by Astrophil Press at the University of South Dakota. He can be contacted on murzbanfshroff@gmail.com
Beth Raymer is the author of Lay the Favorite (Spiegel & Grau), a memoir about her years in Las Vegas and her work in the sports betting industry, Head of Household: A Journal for Single Moms (Princeton Architectural Press), and the forthcoming novel Fireworks Every Night (Random House). She received an M.F.A. from Columbia University and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship. Her journalism has been published in The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and The New York Times. She lives in New York City.
Hosted by:
Tim Tomlinson, co-founder and director of New York Writers Workshop. Tims books are Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse (chapbook), Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, the story collection This Is Not Happening to You, and, forthcoming in 2023, Listening to Fish: meditations from the wet world.
DATE: Thursday, Sept 21, 2023
TIME: Doors 6:00 PM, Reading 6:30 PM, followed by Q&A and reception until 8:00 (refreshments provided)
PLACE: Underland Gallery, 457 77th Street, Unit #1, Brooklyn, NY 11209 (sidewalk level, no stairs)
Directions
Underland Gallery, 457 77th Street, Unit #1, Brooklyn, NY 11209, btw 4th Ave and 5th Ave (ground level). Take the R Train to 77th St. & 4th Ave. Brooklyn, head east ⅔ of a block from station.