Randa Jarrar’s work has appeared in
The New York Times Magazine, The
Utne Reader, Salon.com,
Guernica,
The Rumpus, The
Oxford American,
Ploughshares,
The Sun, and others
. Her first book, the Arab-American coming of age novel,
A Map of Home, is now on many college syllabi. It was published in half a dozen languages and won a Hopwood Award, an Arab-American Book Award, and was named one of the best novels of 2008 by the
Barnes and Noble Review. Her second book,
Him, Me, Muhammad Ali, was named one of the
Most Anticipated Books of 2016 by
The Millions,
a
Key Collection for Fall 2016 by
Library Journal,
and one of
Electric Literature’s
25 best collections of the year. She has received fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, Hedgebrook, and others, and in 2010
was named one of the most gifted writers of Arab origin under the age of 40. She runs RAWI (the Radius of Arab-American Writers) and loves coordinating events and strengthening communities.