Jarrar has written nonfiction and fiction, publishing his first short story in the prestigious Ploughshares literary journal in Fall 2004. ( April 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please do not remove this message until conditions to do so are met. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. The neutrality of this section is disputed. Of his writing, author and critic Mat Johnson has said “Randa Jarrar’s prose is bold and luscious and makes the darkly comic seem light." Writings He is a creative writing professor at California State University. 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 from the University of Michigan. After the Gulf War in 1991, he and his family returned to the United States, living in the New York area. Randa Jarrar was born in 1978 in Chicago, to an Egyptian mother and a Palestinian father. He teaches creative writing in an MFA program at California State University at Fresno. Since then he has published short stories, essays, the collection, Him, Me, Muhammad Ali (2016), and the memoir, Love Is an Ex-Country (2021). His first novel, the coming-of-age story A Map of Home (2008), won him the Hopwood Award, and an Arab American Book Award. Randa Jarrar (born 1978) is an American writer and translator.
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