The Faster I Walk
With a poignant sadness, a young Norwegian writer, Kjersti A. Skomsvold, tells the story of a lonely dying woman in her debut The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am.
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Claudette Bakhtiar
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Claudette Bakhtiar lives in Manhattan and holds a MFA in Fiction from Columbia University School of the Arts. She received a NYFA Fellowship in Fiction in 2004 and served on the fiction judging panel in 2008. Her fiction and nonfiction have previously appeared in Gigantic, The L Magazine, Literary New York, Time Out New York and MrBellersNeighborhood.com. She was also, for four years, the host and curator of a reading series at The International Center, a non-profit located in Manhattan dedicated to helping new immigrants, which doubled as a fundraiser for the center.