ABOUT EMAN
Eman Quotah’s debut novel, Bride of the Sea, won the Arab American Book Award for fiction in 2022. She grew up in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, and Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, USA Today, The Rumpus, Kweli, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, ArabLit Quarterly, The Markaz Review and other publications.
When she’s not writing fiction or essays, Eman is a communications consultant and ghost writer for nonprofit and business leaders. She lives with her family near Washington, D.C.
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