Biographies of Zaina Arafat

Zaina Arafat is an LGBTQ Arab-American fiction and nonfiction writer. She is the author of the novel, You Exist Too Much, which won a 2021 Lambda Literary Award and was named Roxane Gay's favorite book of 2020. Her stories and essays have appeared in publications including The New York Times, Granta, The Believer, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Harper's Bazaar, BuzzFeed, VICE, Guernica, Literary Hub and NPR. In recognition of her work, she was awarded the Arab Women/Migrants from the Middle East fellowship at Jack Jones Literary Arts and named a Champion of Pride by The Advocate. She holds an M.F.A. from Iowa and an M.A. from Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn and is currently at work on a collection...

عرفات كاتبة فلسطينية مقيمة في مدينة نيويورك، حاصلة على درجة الماجستير في الشؤون الدولية من جامعة كولومبيا، نشرت العديد من القصص والمقالات في صحف نيويورك تايمز، وجرانتا، وبيليفر وفرجينيا كوارترلي، وواشنطن بوست، وغيرها؛ وصدرت لها رواية وكتاب يضمّ مجموعة مقالات.