Juliet Linderman

In Crown Heights, the nerve center of a project to mentor and help protect Afghan women writers:

The Afghan Women Writers Project will hold a reading and benefit for a unique mentoring program for voices out of Afghanistan.

Bio: Juliet Linderman is a writer and reporter living in Greenpoint. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Village Voice, McSweeney's, and other publications. She's currently the arts and culture editor at the Brooklyn Paper, and is working on a book about refugee resettlement in the United States, to be published by McSweeney's this year. Follow her @JulietLinderman.

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In Crown Heights, the nerve center of a project to mentor and help protect Afghan women writers

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On Jan. 21 and 22, those comedians—plus Rachel Dratch of Saturday Night Live fame—will lend their unlikely voices to the women who penned these poems, in a uniquely imagined fundraiser titled "Comedians of New York for Afghan Women Writers," benefitting the Afghan Women’s Writing Project, an organization dedicated to empowering Afghan women—through mentorship, support and continued encouragement—to write their stories, find their voices, and share both with the rest of the world. “Comedians understand pain best,” said Stephanie Tait, a filmmaker and comedian herself, who acts as the AWWP creative outreach director event’s curator, “because they go into comedy to escape their own.” More

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By Juliet Linderman

on January 20th, 2012 3:22pm