Imad Rahman is a

Pakistani-American Pakistani Americans () are citizens of the United States who have full or partial ancestry from Pakistan, or more simply, Pakistanis in America. They can be from different ethnic groups in Pakistan like Punjabis, Punjabi or Muhajir people, Muhaj ...

fiction writer whose first

short story A short story is a piece of prose fiction. It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the old ...

collection was published in 2004.

Biography

A native of

Karachi, Pakistan Karachi is the capital city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Sindh, Pakistan. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, largest city in Pakistan and 12th List of largest cities, largest in the world, with a popul ...

who immigrated to the United States at age 18 to attend college, Rahman was an assistant professor of English at

Kansas State University Kansas State University (KSU, Kansas State, or K-State) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university with its main campus in Manhattan, Kansas, United States. It was opened as the state's land-grant coll ...

, and, as of 2008, is an assistant professor of English at

Cleveland State University Cleveland State University (CSU) is a public research university in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It was established in 1964 and opened for classes in 1965 after acquiring the entirety of Fenn College, a private school that had been in oper ...

, where he directs the Imagination Writers Conference. He is a graduate of

Ohio Wesleyan University Ohio Wesleyan University (abbrevriated OWU) is a private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Delaware, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1842 by Methodist leaders and Ohio Valley, Centra ...

, and holds a Master of Arts from

Ohio University Ohio University (Ohio or OU) is a Public university, public research university with its main campus in Athens, Ohio, United States. The university was first conceived in the 1787 contract between the United States Department of the Treasury#Re ...

and a Master of Fine Arts from the

University of Florida The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida, United States. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida and a preem ...

. He was the James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing at the

University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1848 when Wisconsin achieved st ...

in 2001–2002. The stories in ''I Dream of Microwaves'' feature a Pakistani actor who laments that he can't even get work in the U.S. portraying criminals.

Bibliography

''Short Story Publications'' * 2013: "The Brigadier-General Takes His Final Stand" in

xo Orpheus ''xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths'' is a 2013 anthology edited by Kate Bernheimer. It is a collection of stories based on older myths and fairy tales, billed as a "new way of mythmaking." The book was nominated for the 2014 World Fantasy Award for ...

* 2005: "All Roads Lead to Flesh and Bone" in

Willow Springs Literary Journal Willows, also called sallows and osiers, of the genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as ...

, Issue 55 * 2003: "Eating Ohio" in

One Story ''One Story'' is a literary magazine which publishes 12 issues a year, each issue containing a single short story A short story is a piece of prose fiction. It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained inciden ...

, Issue 19 * 2001: "I Dream of Microwaves" in

Gulf Coast Literary Journal A gulf is a large inlet from an ocean or their seas into a landmass, larger and typically (though not always) with a narrower opening than a bay. The term was used traditionally for large, highly indented navigable bodies of salt water that ar ...

''Books'' * 2004: ''I Dream of Microwaves,'' short story collection

External links

2004 newspaper interview
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rahman, Imad Pakistani emigrants to the United States University of Wisconsin–Madison fellows Ohio Wesleyan University alumni Ohio University alumni Kansas State University faculty Cleveland State University faculty University of Florida alumni American short story writers Living people Writers from Karachi Year of birth missing (living people)