Ava Homa

Ava Homa

Ava Homa is author of Echoes from the Other Land which was nominated for the world's largest short story award: 2011 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Echoes from the Other Land was also placed 6th in the top ten winners of the CBC Reader's Choice Contest for Giller Prize. Her collection has a running theme of resistance by modern Iranian women. The stories are told on a universal scale, depicting human endurance, desire and passion. Ava’s writings have appeared in periodicals such as The Toronto Quarterly, Windsor Review, the Toronto Star and Rabble.

Ava Homa is an academic who teaches Creative Writing and English in a post secondary level in Ontario Colleges. She is a writer-in-residence for Minden Hill Cultural Centre and Open Book Toronto & Ontario. Ava Homa is also a translator (Farsi/English) and a researcher. She loves outdoor activities, music, movies and fine arts.

Reviews of Echoes from the Other Land in The Toronto Quarterly

Read Ava Homa's Letter to Canada in the Toronto Star

-Ava Homa interviewed by Entertainment Windsor watch here

Read Ava's artcile in the Toronto Star read here

March 3, CBC Windsor interviews Ava Homa listen

March 3, OurWindsor writers about Ava's haunting stories read and watch the photos here

March 3-University of Windsor writes about Ava read here

March 22, UofT Radio Station (HOWL) interviews Ava Homa 10 pm

February 2011, Voice of America (Persian) interviews Ava Homa watch here

Jan 2, 2011 Ava featured in Voices (Kurdish) read here

- Dec 16, 2010 Carole Giangrande reviews Echoes read here

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