Roxanne RashediAcademic Year Adjunct LecturerRoxanne Naseem Rashedi has recently taught Composition and Writing courses at De Anza Community College. She has been awarded fellowships and scholarships, including UC Berkeley's W.H. Hill Award and has been accepted into numerous writing workshops, including Tin House and VONA. She was recently granted the First Annual Generations Literary Journal Emerging Writer Scholarship to attend the VONA workshop at UC Berkeley. Roxanne was also invited to lead a yoga and poetry infused workshop at the Los Dos Brujas Writers' Workshop. She has an M.A. from Georgetown University and a B.A. in English from the University of California Berkeley, where she was a graduate of the English Honors Program. At Georgetown University, Roxanne was appointed as the Graduate Writing Fellow at the Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship and she was also a teaching assistant in the Department of American Studies. Recently, her work has appeared in the Los Angles Review of Books, the Asian American Literature: Discourses and Pedagogies Journal, UCLA's eScholarship Repository Project, and The Hive: Apiary Digital Edition. Roxanne is currently working on a collection of short stories and this year she teaches Critical Thinking and Writing and Children's Literature/Storytelling courses at Santa Clara University. |
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