THE NEW WORLD — On Identity, Trump, and Standing Up
March 30th, 2017 | by Ramiza Koya
My daughter spent a lot of 2016 planning – in the case that Trump was elected – to leave the
About Ramiza Koya
Ramiza Koya
Ramiza Koya has both a BA and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and has taught in Spain, the Czech Republic, and Morocco. She has published both fiction and nonfiction in publications such as Lumina, Washington Square Review, and Catamaran, and has just finished a novel, The Royal Abduls, about the affects of 9/11 on an Indian-American family. She has been a fellow at both MacDowell Colony and Blue Mountain Center. Currently, she is an instructor in composition and creative writing at Portland Community College as well as a program specialist for Literary Arts’ Writers in the Schools program.