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 University professor Albert J. Raboteau. She received an undergraduate degree at Yale University and an MFA from New York University.

Career

Raboteau graduated from New York University. She teaches at City College of New York. Her writing has been published in The Guardian, The New York Times, New York Review of Books, Oxford American, The Believer, Guernica, The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Best American Mystery Stories and The 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. Her first novel The Professor's Daughter was published in 2005. Her second book, Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora, a work of creative nonfiction, was published in 2013 and won a 2014 American Book Award.

Personal life

Raboteau is married to novelist Victor LaValle and lives in New York City. They have two children.

Works