Emily Raboteau

Emily Raboteau is a writer and creative writing professor at City College of New York, focusing on race, identity, and social justice. She is the author of The Professor’s Daughter (2005) and Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora (2013), the latter of which was a finalist for the Hurston Wright Legacy Award and won a 2014 American Book Award.

• Teaches Creative Writing at City College of New York
• Published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Tin House, McSweeney’s, Freeman’s, The Guardian, The Believer, Salon
• Recipient of Pushcart Prize, Nelson Algren Award, and fellowships from NEA, NYFA, Lannan Foundation, and MacDowell