Emily Raboteau

Emily Raboteau is an American fiction writer, essayist, and Professor of Creative Writing at the City College of New York.

Early life[]

Raboteau grew up in New Jersey, the daughter of Princeton professor Albert Raboteau.^{[1] [2]} She received an undergraduate degree at Yale University and an MFA from New York University.^[3]

Career[]

Her writing has been published in The Guardian, Oxford American, The Believer, Guernica, Best American Short Stories,^[4] Best American Nonrequired Reading, Best American Mystery Stories and Best African American Essays. She has received the Pushcart Prize, the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.^[4][5]

Her first novel The Professor's Daughter was published in 2005.^[6] Her second book, Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora, a work of creative nonfiction, was published in 2013.

Personal life[]

Raboteau is married to novelist Victor LaValle and lives in New York City.^[7] They have two children.^[8]

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