Emily Raboteau is an American fiction writer, essayist, and professor of creative writing at the City College of New York.
Raboteau grew up in New Jersey, the daughter of Princeton University professor Albert J.
She has received the Pushcart Prize, the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
[10] Her second book, Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora, a work of creative nonfiction, was published in 2013 and won a 2014 American Book Award.
[11] Raboteau is married to novelist Victor LaValle and lives in New York City.