Diana Abu-Jaber
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Diana Abu-Jaber is an author and a teacher at Portland State University. She was born in 1960 in Syracuse, New York. Her father was Jordanian and her mother was American, descended from Irish and German roots. At the age of seven she moved with her family for two years to Jordan.
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[edit] Education
- BA - English and Creative Writing, State University of New York at Binghamton
- MA - English and Creative Writing, University of Windsor
- Ph.D - English and Creative Writing, State University of New York at Binghamton
[edit] Academic Appointments
- 1990 - Visiting Assistant Professor, English, Iowa State University
- 1990-1995 - Assistant Professor, English, University of Oregon
- 1996-present - Writer-in-Residence/Associate Professor, English Department, Portland State University
[edit] Awards
- National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellowship
- PEN/Hemingway Award for First Novelist, Finalist
- Oregon Book Award
- Story Magazine Short Story Contest, Finalist
- Fulbright Research Award, Amman, Jordan
- International Writers NEA Fellowship in Fiction
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar
- Guest Fiction Editor, Seattle Review
- Pushcart Prize Finalist, short fiction
- Judge, National Endowment for the Arts Fiction/Nonfiction Fellowship Competition
- Named one of the "Top Women Writers 2003" by Vanity Fair magazine
- Crescent named one of Twenty Noteworthy Novels of the Year by The Christian Science Monitor
- Northwest Distinguished Author Award from Willamette Writers
- American Book Award
- PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction
- Language of Baklava named Booksense Notable Book, April
[edit] Bibliography
Fiction
- Crescent
- Arabian Jazz
- Origin (To be published June 2007)
Nonfiction/Memoir
- The Language of Baklava
She has also authored many short stories, both fiction and nonfiction.
