Letters from Afghanistan: A feature from the Afghan Women’s Writing Project

Words By Afghan Women's Writing Project, Art By Carly Lyn Heath

Imagine you have a story to tell. It’s a story about hope, loss, tragedy, and courage. It’s your story. Now imagine trying to write this story having grown up in a country where education was denied to you, where telling your story has been criminalized. And then picture writing it in a second language.The women…

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Afghan Women's Writing Project

In order to protect their identities, we do not publish bios for AWWP writers.

Carly Lyn Heath

Carly Lyn Heath holds an MFA from Chapman University. She is the founding owner of Charming Films, LLC—a film production, illustration, and design company—and writer/director of the award-winning feature length film “A Foundling” starring Cindy Chiu and Tim Chiou. She currently works as an art professor and illustrator and has recently completed a novel. Carly currently lives in Chadron, Nebraska.

First Featured In: No. 7, spring 2017

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