City Lights LIVE and Dalkey Archive Press celebrate the publication of “small pieces” by Micheline Aharonian Marcom and Fowzia Karimi, published by Dalkey Archive Press.

“small pieces” is a collaboration between novelist Micheline Aharonian Marcom and writer and visual artist Fowzia Karimi, pairing Marcom’s short stories with watercolors done by Karimi. The work is a conversation between two artists in text and image, side by side.

Micheline Aharonian Marcom is the author of seven novels. Her novels include "The New American," "The Brick House," and "A Brief History of Yes." She has received fellowships and awards from the Lannan Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, and the US Artists’ Foundation. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia.

Fowzia Karimi has a background in Visual Arts and Biology. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College, California. Her work explores the correspondence on the page between the written and the visual arts. She is a recipient of The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards (2011). She is the author of "Above Us the Milky Way" (Deep Vellum, 2020). She lives in Denton, Texas.

You can purchase copies of “small pieces” at https://citylights.com/new-fiction-in-hardcover/small-pieces/

This event is made possible with the support of the City Lights Foundation. To learn more visit: https://citylights.com/foundation/