Emily Raboteau
Writer and Professor of English at City College.
Emily Raboteau (author of The Professor’s Daughter, and Searching for Zion) is a professor in the English Department at City College, where she teaches creative writing in the MFA Program and at the undergraduate level. Her next book, Lessons for Survival, will be published in 2023 by Holt.
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Positions
Education
Yale University, BA, 1998
New York University, MFA, 2002, New York Times Fellow, Jacob Javits Fellow
Publications
The Professor’s Daughter, a novel, Henry Holt, 2005
Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora, Grove/Atlantic, 2013
Anthologies:
Kingdom of Olives and Ash, HarperCollins, 2017
Nonstop Metropolis, UC Press, 2016
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race, Scribner, 2016
Best American Short Stories, 2003
Fiction and essays in:
The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Guernica, VQR, The Guardian, The Believer, Oxford American, McSweeny’s, Transition, Callaloo, Narrative, The Missouri Review, StoryQuarterly, Buzzfeed, Literary Hub, Aperture, The Huffington Post, and elsewhere.
Academic Interests
Race, identity, black representations in visual culture, photography, social justice.
