Imad Rahman
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Imad Rahman is a Pakistani-American fiction writer whose first short story collection was published in 2004.
[edit] Biography
A native of Karachi, Pakistan who immigrated to the United States at age 18 to attend college, Rahman is an assistant professor of English at Kansas State University. He has a master of arts from Ohio University and a master of fine arts from the University of Florida. He was the James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing 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. "Perhaps people of Pakistani origin did not commit enough heinous crimes or did not perform enough acts of extraordinary mediocrity (have sex with the psychotic baby-sitter, love the neighbor's wife and shoot the neighbour and so forth), things that might qualify for a Movie of the Week."
[edit] Bibliography
- I Dream of Microwaves (2004, short story collection)
