Randa Jarrar

Randa Jarrar is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, and translator who has been awarded the Million Writers Award, the Avery Hopwood and Jule Hopwood Award, the Arab American Book Award, and the Geoffrey James Gosling Prize. Her translations from Arabic have appeared in Words Without Borders: The World Through the Eyes of Writers. She is the author of A Map of Home, which has been published in half a dozen languages, and was named one of the best novels of 2008 by the Barnes and Noble Review. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Five Chapters, Guernica, The Oxford American, The New York Times Magazine, The Utne Reader, Salon.com, The Rumpus, and others. She has received fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Hedgebrook, Caravansarai, and Eastern Frontier, and she was chosen to take part in Beirut39, which celebrates the 39 most gifted writers of Arab origin under the age of 40.