Emily Raboteau (b. 1976) is the author of a novel, The Professor's Daughter, and a work of creative nonfiction, Searching for Zion, winner of a 2014 American Book Award. Her fiction and essays have been widely published and anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, The New York Times, Tin House, Salon, McSweeney's, The Guardian, Guernica, The Believer and elsewhere. Honors include a Pushcart Prize, the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony. An avid world traveler, Raboteau resides in New York City where she teaches creative writing at City College, in Harlem.