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The Summer I reread The Stranger by Camus and then The Meursault Investigation by Daoud'¦
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Biography


Soraya Shalforoosh's first collection of poetry, This Version of Earth, was published by Barrow Street in November 2014. Soraya has been a featured poet in the Journal of the Academy of American Poets Emerging Poet Series, and has had poems and reviews in Black Earth Institute, Apogee Journal, Taos Journal, Barrow Street, Lumina Journal, Skanky Possum, Marlboro Review, WSQ, Brink: An Anthology of Post Modern American Poetry, Tribes.org, etc. Shalforoosh has her MFA in Creative Writing from the New School and, as an undergraduate at Clark University, won first place in the Prentiss Cheney Hoyt Poetry award. Shalforoosh has been a guest poet at William Paterson University in NJ, Berkeley College in New York, and San Jose State University and guest speaker at the American Embassy in Algeria. Shalforoosh is a poetry fellow at the Frost Place in July 2017.


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