Randa Jarrar is an award-winning novelist, short story writer and translator.
Randa grew up in Kuwait and Egypt, and moved to the U.S. after the first Gulf War. At the age of 13, she enrolled in 10th grade, and went on to attend Sarah Lawrence College at 16. Two years later, she became a single mom, and by the age of 22, she had a Masters degree, a four-year-old and a desire to write a novel.
She began “A Map of Home” at the age of 23, writing the bulk of it in a trailer in small-town Texas. Jarrar’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Oxford American, Ploughshares, The New York Times, Progressive Magazine, as well as online and in numerous anthologies.
She is also a translator of Arabic fiction, and her publications include Hassan Daoud’s novel “The Year of the Revolutionary New Breadmaking Machine.”
She currently lives in Austin, Texas, and is working on a collection of stories and a new novel, about a young single mother and her magical prophet son.
Visit her online at www.randajarrar.com.
