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American writer and translator (born 1978)

Randa Jarrar (born 1978), also known as Ra Jarrar^[2] is an American writer and translator.

Her^[a] first novel, the coming-of-age story A Map of Home (2008), won her the Hopwood Award, and an Arab American Book Award.

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Since then she has published short stories, essays, the collection, Him, Me, Muhammad Ali (2016), and the memoir, Love Is an Ex-Country (2021).

She teaches creative writing in an MFA program at California State University at Fresno.^[2][3]

Biography

Randa Jarrar was born in 1978 in Chicago, to an Egyptian mother and a Palestinian father.

She grew up in Kuwait and Egypt. After the Gulf War in 1991, she and her family returned to the United States, living in the New York area.^[4] Jarrar studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, receiving an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MFA in creative writing