2008 - 2009 PARTICIPANTS |
 | Laila Lalami Assistant Professor of Creative Writing University of California, Riverside Seminar Laila Lalami was born and raised in Morocco. She earned her B.A. in English from Université Mohammed V in Rabat, her M.A. from University College, London, and her Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Southern California. Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post and elsewhere. She was short-listed for the Caine Prize for African Writing (the "African Booker") in 2006. Her debut collection of short stories, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, has been translated into Spanish, Dutch, French, Portuguese, and Italian. Her first novel, The Outsider, will be published in the spring of 2009. She is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside. |
