Emily Raboteau

Emily Raboteau is an essayist, memoirist, and novelist, writing at the intersection of environmental justice, race, social change and parenthood. She is the author of the novel The Professor's Daughter (2005); the creative nonfiction book Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora (2013), winner of an American Book Award; and Lessons for Survival (2024). She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award, and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. A contributing editor at Orion Magazine and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, she is a professor of creative writing at the City College of New York.