"How maddening it was to have been born in a cotton field with aspirations of grandeur."
--Maya Angelou, writing about her father's upbringing in the Jim Crow South.
--Maya Angelou, writing about her father's upbringing in the Jim Crow South.
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About Me
- ZenZoon
- I'm a Palestinian-American writer living in Iowa City. I'm currently working on two books and teaching creative writing at The University of Iowa. My work has appeared in Granta, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, BuzzFeed, and NPR. I have an MFA from Iowa and an MA international affairs from Columbia.
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