Peter's Moonlight Photography and Other Stories

By Dina Rabadi

Influenced by the Czech artist Mucha’s series on women and seasons, the title story of Dina Rabadi’s debut fiction collection follows an aging moonlight photographer’s quest for success and his models’ (all ordinary women) quest for a sense of beauty. Like the women in Mucha’s series, each of the women represents a season—summer, fall, winter and spring and in representing seasons represents Everywoman. Other stories range in theme and setting from the questionable success of the building of the atomic bomb to a motherless Spanish boy who becomes a perfume maker in the south of France. Several of Rabadi’s stories have been published in various periodicals including Fiction (2003 short story finalist.)

“These are stories Harold Ross would have chosen for the New Yorker because they are so intelligent and literate, but stories about an America he could have never envisioned. Dina Rabadi offers an honest voice about the country that evolved. They are haunting, lonely and so true.”
Vincent J. Schodolski, author and previous West Coast Bureau Chief, The Chicago Tribune

“Dina Rabadi guides us through the labyrinthine complexities of human relationships, embedded as they are in the world of nature.”—Abel Alves, Professor of History and author of The Animals in Spain.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dina Rabadi
• Release date: Oct 20, 2015
• ISBN: 9780990300328

Dina Rabadi

Born in Jordan in 1974 to a Jordanian father and a Czech mother, Dina Rabadi moved to the U.S. when she was four. A graduate of Smith College, her fiction and nonfiction has been published in over twenty periodicals including The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, and Fiction and has won awards and residencies from the Illinois Arts Council, the Vogelstein Foundation, Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Oregon. She has lectured at colleges and universities including Notre Dame. She is now at work on her first novel. Influenced by the former Czech president, Vaclav Havel, and the events of her birth country, Dina founded Global Alliance of Artists when she was 31. The mission of Global Alliance of Artists is to solve social problems on a local, national and international level by leveraging artists and creativity found in communities. Nearly all of Dina’s writings deals with prevailing social problems and is most concerned with issues around international relations, gender and the environment. She founded Global Alliance of Artists to highlight the role of artists as diplomats and states, “Artists are too often marginalized in society. We have a great deal to offer the world in terms of our creative and constructive view of the world– this view, and our ideas, can be used to help solve some of the most pressing social problems of our time.”

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