Pauline Kaldas
Pauline Kaldas was born in Egypt and immigrated with her parents to the United States at the age of eight in 1969. As a writer, her work navigates the geography of immigration, exploring issues of culture, identity, language, and home. She is the author of The Measure of Distance (novel), Looking Both Ways (essays), The Time Between Places (stories), Letters from Cairo (memoir), Egyptian Compass (poetry), and the textbook, Writing the Multicultural Experience. She also co-edited Dinarzad’s Children: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Literature and Beyond Memory: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Creative Nonfiction. She was awarded a fellowship in fiction from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and has been in residency at MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow, Green Olive Arts in Morocco, South Porch, and 360 XQMX in Ajijic, Mexico. Pauline Kaldas is currently Professor of English and Creative Writing at Hollins University in Roanoke, VA.
Books by Pauline Kaldas
“Spending two weeks at the 360 Residency was a rejuvenating experience for me as a writer—the beauty of the mountains and lake, the gorgeous facilities at the residency, and the vivid colors everywhere! This was an ideal place to begin a new project, and I felt supported during my time here. This is a place that balances stimulation and calm in a way that is ideal for an artist. ”
