An Evening with Artists in Exile
Kanchana Ugbabe and
Hadi Nasiri

Artists in Exile is a collaborative effort by Westbeth to provide temporary residencies to artists at risk in their home countries.

Kanchana Ugbabe is a published short story writer and professor of English. She is currently on a joint appointment resulting from a collaboration of Fordham University’s English department, PEN America, and Westbeth Artists Housing. Kanchana has made the transition from India to Nigeria and writes fiction based on her negotiation with the new cultural terrain. Coming from an area torn apart by ethno-religious conflict, she also explores through her writing what it means to encounter terrorism in everyday living. Kanchana comes to us from Harvard where she was a Visiting Scholar in Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies.

Hadi Nasiri is a contemporary performance artist from Iran.