Koethi Zan ’96 to Present at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival

Montreal, Canada - Koethi Zan, a 1996 graduate of Yale Law School and a rising star in the world of crime writing, will be appearing at Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montreal on May 2, 2014. The Festival brings together writers from 15 countries, speaking 7 different languages, in Montreal, a bilingual city.

Blue Metropolis is a not-for-profit organization that brings together people of different languages and cultures to share the pleasures of reading and writing, and to develop creativity and cross-cultural understanding. Each year, the Foundation presents an international literary festival, while offering a wide range of educational and social programmes throughout the year, both in the classroom and online. Because writing and reading are much more than entertaining pastimes, these programmes are also used as therapeutic tools, to encourage people to stay in school and to combat poverty and social exclusion.

Koethi will be participating in the presentation “Mile End Crime Night,” presented by Maisonneuve Magazine. She will give a reading of her novel The Never List, followed by a Q&A session with attendees.

Koethi graduated from Yale Law School in 1996, and then spent the next fifteen years practicing entertainment law both in private practice (at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison and, later, Schreck Rose & Dapello) and in-house business and legal affairs positions (for the film producer, Ed Pressman, and, most recently, at MTV), with a slight detour along the way to study cinema at NYY’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Then, while Senior Vice President & Deputy General Counsel at MTV, she decided to fulfill a lifelong dream on the side, and in the early mornings she wrote her crime novel, The Never List.

More information about the festival can be found at www.bluemetropolis.org/2014festival.