Nasreen Jahan
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5 March 1966
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After graduating with honors from Columbia University, where she studied comparative literature, Eleanor spent several years working as a journalist in Southeast Asia. This experience profoundly shaped her worldview and writing style, teaching her the importance of bearing witness to lives unlike her own.
Her debut story collection, The Language of Rain (2018), received widespread critical acclaim and was named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, and Time Magazine. Her second book, Between the Tides (2021), spent sixteen weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and was longlisted for the Booker Prize.
Born and raised in a small fishing village on the coast of Maine, Eleanor developed a love for storytelling at an early age. She spent her childhood exploring tide pools, reading voraciously, and listening to her grandmother’s stories about the “old country”—tales that would later influence much of her work.
Biography
Nasreen Jahan
nasreenjahan@gmail.com
017*******7
5 March 1966
Address
Bangladeshi
Eleanor Blackwood is the award-winning author of three books of fiction, including her newest novel, The Weight of Shadows, which debuted at #4 on The New York Times bestseller list.
After graduating with honors from Columbia University, where she studied comparative literature, Eleanor spent several years working as a journalist in Southeast Asia. This experience profoundly shaped her worldview and writing style, teaching her the importance of bearing witness to lives unlike her own.
Her debut story collection, The Language of Rain (2018), received widespread critical acclaim and was named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, and Time Magazine. Her second book, Between the Tides (2021), spent sixteen weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and was longlisted for the Booker Prize.
Born and raised in a small fishing village on the coast of Maine, Eleanor developed a love for storytelling at an early age. She spent her childhood exploring tide pools, reading voraciously, and listening to her grandmother’s stories about the “old country”—tales that would later influence much of her work.
Eleanor writes every morning from 5 AM to noon in a small studio behind her Brooklyn brownstone. She believes in the power of routine and revision—her novels typically go through at least twenty drafts before publication.
“Writing is the closest I come to prayer,” she has said in interviews. “It’s an act of attention, of sitting with the world and trying to understand it more deeply.”
When not writing, Eleanor teaches creative writing at NYU and mentors emerging writers through various fellowship programs. She lives in Brooklyn with her partner, the visual artist James Okonkwo, and their rescue dog, Hemingway.
