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  <name><![CDATA[Randa Jarrar]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Randa Jarrar grew up in Kuwait and Egypt, and moved to the US after the first Gulf War. At the age of 13, she enrolled in 10th grade, and went on to attend Sarah Lawrence College at 16.  Two years later, she became a single mom, and by the age of 22, she had a Masters' degree, a four- year-old, and a desire to write a novel.  She began A Map of Home at the age of 23, writing the bulk of it in a trailer in small-town Texas.  The novel went on to win the Hopwood Award and Gosling Prize at the University of Michigan, where she  received an MFA.  Jarrar's short story, You Are A 14-Year-Old Arab Chick WHo Just Moved to Texas, won the Million Writers Award and has been widely anthologized.  Her other award-winning short stories have appeared in the Oxford American, Ploughshares, Hunger Mountain, and Duck and Herring, as well as in numerous anthologies.  She is also a translator of Arabic fiction, and her publications include Hassan Daoud's novel The Year of the Revolutionary New Breadmaking Machine.  She currently lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and is working on a collection of stories and a new novel, about a young single mother and her magical son.]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>Chicago</hometown>  <born_at>01/04/1978</born_at>    
  
  
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