Naseem Rakha

Two Week Curated Artist in Residence, Fall 2019

 An Oregon-based journalist, geologist, and award-winning author, Naseem Rakha’s writing has appeared in NPR, The Guardian, and the Los Angeles Review, among other publications. She is the author of the internationally acclaimed novel The Crying Tree.

During her residency at Oak Spring, Naseem penned a fictional short story about Bunny Mellon during her final days, speaking with OSGF legacy employees in order to get a sense of Mellon’s reflections on her place in the world and the experience of losing her vision. She made this video about the two weeks she spent at Oak Spring.

You can learn more about Naseem here.