Randa Jarrar

Randa Jarrar
Randa Jarrar at the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Born1978 (age 47–48)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
LanguageEnglish, Arabic
EducationSarah Lawrence College (BA)
University of Texas at Austin (MA)
University of Michigan (MFA)
Notable awardsHopwood Award
Arab American Book Award

Randa Jarrar (born 1978), also known as Ra Jarrar is an American writer and translator. Her first novel, the coming-of-age story A Map of Home (2008), won her the Hopwood Award, and an Arab American Book Award. Since then she has published short stories, essays, the collection, Him, Me, Muhammad Ali (2016), and the memoir, Love Is an Ex-Country (2021).

She teaches creative writing in an MFA program at California State University at Fresno.


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