Emily Raboteau is an American fiction writer and City College of New York professor who received an MFA from New York University and whose first novel The Professor's Daughter was published in 2005.[1] She is working on a second novel from the perspective of a severely autistic boy who can only feel his body when it is submerged in water.[2]
Her writing has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Nerve, and The Best American Short Stories 2003.[3] She has received the Pushcart Prize, a Nelson Algren Award, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.[3][4]