Fresno State assistant professor of English and published novelist Randa Jarrar has been awarded a 2014 Lannan Residency Program fellowship. Lannan is a family foundation dedicated to cultural freedom, diversity and creativity. According to the organization, the fellowship “provides uninterrupted writing time for poets, writers, essayists, translators, scholars, curators, as well as indigenous, environmental and social justice activists.” Lannan fellows spend their writing time in Marfa, Texas, a high-desert ranching town and art oasis. Jarrar is the author of the novel “A Map of Home” and of the forthcoming collection of stories, “Him, Me, Muhammad Ali.” Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, the Utne Reader, Salon, Guernica, The Rumpus, The Oxford American, Ploughshares and others. She teaches in the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at Fresno State. INFO: Jefferson Beavers, jbeavers@csufresno.edu or 559.278.1569.
