University of Massachusetts

In 1991, after graduating from Karachi Grammar School , KS left Pakistan and travelled to the United States to pursue her Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York...

KS taught variously at Hamilton College and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

DL made a speech at an outdoor rally at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, which was subsequently printed as A Speech for a Rally.

KS published her debut novel, In the City by the Sea, initially conceived as part of her MFA thesis for the University of Massachusetts , Amherst.

Her salary paid $4,000 a year, which increased the couple's annual income considerably. Sylvia and Ted lived in Massachusetts for two years; Sylvia taught at Smith College for one year. Ted mostly wrote during...

Following her graduation from the University of Massachusetts , KS began to lead a somewhat itinerant lifestyle, alternately moving back and forth between London, Karachi, and various places in the United States.