author of The Measure of Distance
October 25, 11:20 a.m.
Pauline Kaldas returns to the symposium with her debut novel The Measure of Distance, a multi-generational family’s story of migration within Egypt and immigration from Egypt to America. Born in Egypt, Pauline Kaldas immigrated with her family to the US when she was eight. She grew up near Boston, and in 1990 returned to Egypt to teach for three years at Cairo University. She currently teaches creative writing and English at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia.
Kaldas has also published the essay collection, Looking Both Ways, the story collection, The Time Between Places: Stories that Weave in and out of Egypt and America, the poetry collection, Egyptian Compass, and the memoir, Letters from Cairo. She has also published the textbook, Writing the Multicultural Experience, and edited Dinarzad’s Children: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction.
