Faculty Information

Randa Jarrar is the author of the novel  A Map of Home, which won the Hopwood Award, the Gosling Prize, and the Arab American Book Award. She was born in Chicago and raised in Kuwait, Egypt, and New York, and has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from UT Austin, and an MFA from the University of Michigan. Her work has appeared in the  New York Time Magazine, Ploughshares, Five Chapters, the  Oxford American Magazine, Utne Reader, and other journals.