Pankaj Challa, Stone Court Writer-in-Residence reads from his work

Pankaj Challa, Ph.D., Stone Court Writer-in-Residence reads from The Happiness of Wandering Beings – a collection of stories about love, livelihood, and identity in the New India – and other work.

Refreshments and conversation with the author to follow.

Pankaj Challa’s stories have a Chekhovian simplicity, that is, a simplicity, like that of all great fiction, which grows m ore and more complex the more and more you stare at it, until you become unsure about, well, practically everything that you thought you knew
– Steven Barthelme, author of Hush, Hush: Stories

Pankaj Challa, Ph.D., Stone Court Writer-in-Residence in Stockbridge, MA, born in India, was selected from an outstanding group of applicants to bring his unique voice to the Berkshires. As Stone Court Writer-in-Residence, he has spent the fall in Stockbridge, writing and teaching a Creative Writing Workshop at the Berkshire Waldorf High School.

This even is co-sponsored by these great Berkshire Organizations: