Emily Raboteau is an American

United States

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 fiction writer and City College of New York

City College of New York

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 professor

Professor

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 who received an MFA

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 from New York University

New York University

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 and whose first novel The Professor's Daughter was published in 2005. She is working on a second novel from the perspective of a severely autistic boy who can only feel his body when it is submerged in water.

Her writing has appeared in Narrative Magazine

Narrative Magazine

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, Nerve

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, and The Best American Short Stories 2003

The Best American Short Stories 2003

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. She has received the Pushcart Prize

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, a Nelson Algren Award, a New York Foundation for the Arts

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 Fellowship, and a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts

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