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 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 Literary Review of Canada, The Toronto Quarterly, Windsor Review, the Toronto Star, and Rabble.

Ava Homa teaches English at George Brown College of Toronto and is the 2013 writer-in-residence of Joy Kogawa Historic House. She loves outdoor activities, music, movies and fine arts.

Lullaby, a short story by Ava Homa is published by Novel Rights, a Human Rights Literature Porject. Here (This is how Ava Homa wrote this story. Here)

Review of Echoes from the Other Land by Dawn Promislow in Mostly Books here

Review of Echoes from the Other Land by May Lui here

Review of Echoes from the Other Land in The Toronto Quarterly

Review of Echoes from the Other Land by Carol Giangrade in Thoughtful Blogger here

Review of Echoes from the Other Land by Gavin Wolch in Rudaw here

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