Emily Raboteau

Emily Raboteau

Emily Raboteau is the author of The Professor's Daughter and Searching for Zion, winner of a 2014 American Book Award and a finalist for the Hurston Wright Award. She is currently Distinguished Faculty in the CUNY Graduate Center's Advanced Research Collaborative, where she's completing her third book.

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A woman reclined in a yellow Adirondack chair with a back like a tongue depressor,…

Pussy, Redefined

As in cat, a feline word suggesting paws and claws.  Not to be confused with vagina, its clinical cousin scraped…

Washington Heights Blue Series

  Today I felt a little blue and so I hunted for more blue This…

Oysters / Ostras

  Oysters I often stop on my way home from midtown meetings at the Oyster Bar…

The Structure of Bubbles

I After a lifetime of smoking Virginia Slims, my grandmother was dying of lung cancer in the oncology…

The Tragicomic Mulatto

The security personnel of El Al Airlines descended upon me at Newark International Airport like…