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. She received an undergraduate degree at Yale University and an MFA from New York University. Career. Her writing has been published in "The Guardian", "Oxford American", "The Believer", "Guernica", Best American Short Stories, 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. 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. Personal life. Raboteau is married to novelist Victor LaValle and lives in New York City. They have two children.