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Gina B. Nahai

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Gina B, Nahai was born in Iran to a superbly colorful family of Jews sprinkled here and there with fantastically adventurous followers of other faiths. At 13, she left Iran for Chateau Mont-Choisi, an all girls' boarding school in Lausanne, Switzerland. She moved with her family to Los Angeles in 1977--two years before the Islamic Revolution in Iran. She went to UCLA for four glorious years, tried USC law school for a brief and unhappy time, then let herself be convinced by the poet James Ragan to give up the promise of a steady job and a real income and take up writing instead. The good news is, she isn't sorry yet. According to her true and official bio... "Gina Nahai is a best-selling author, columnist, and professor of Creative Writing at USC. Her novels have been translated into eighteen languages, and have been finalists for the Orange Award, the IMPAC Award, and the Harold J. Ribalow Award. She is the winner of the Los Angeles Arts Council Award, the Persian Heritage Foundation’s Award, The Simon Rockower Award, and the Phi Kappa Phi Award. Her writings have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Huffingtonpost.com, and Truthdig.com, as well as in a number of literary and academic journals and anthologies. She writers a monthly column for the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, and is a three-time finalist for an LA Press Club award. Nahai holds a BA and a Masters degree in International Relations from UCLA, and a Master of Professional Writing from USC." Then again, if you wanna know the "bad news" (that is, what doesn't go into the official bio), tune in any time to her blog on www.ginabnahai.com, follow her on FB (Gina B. Nahai) or Twitter (@ginanahai), or be the first person in the universe to click on the "sign up to receive the newsletter" link on the top right side of her website Home page, and hope it will motivate her to go through with her threat and actually write said newsletter.
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