Emily Raboteau
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Emily Raboteau writes at the intersection of social and environmental justice, race, climate change, and parenthood. She is the author of Lessons for Survival, shortlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, Searching for Zion, winner of an American Book Award and finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and The Professor's Daughter. A contributing editor at Orion Magazine and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, her essays have appeared and been anthologized in The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York Magazine, the Atlantic, The Nation, Best American Science Writing, Best American Travel Writing, and Best African American Essays. Distinctions include the Climate Narratives Prize, the Deadline Club Award in Feature Reporting, and grants and fellowships from the NEA, NYFA, the Bronx Council on the Arts, MacDowell and Yaddo. She has recently served as nonfiction faculty at the Bread Loaf Environmental Writing Conference and is a professor of creative writing in the Black Studies Department at the City College of New York (CUNY) in Harlem. She lives with her family in the Bronx.
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