Zaina Arafat

Zaina Arafat is a queer Palestinian-American fiction and nonfiction writer based in Brooklyn. She is the author of the debut novel You Exist Too Much, which won the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction and was named Roxane Gay's favorite book of 2020. Her work has appeared in major publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic. She holds an MFA from Iowa and an MA from Columbia and has been recognized with the Arab Women/Migrants from the Middle East fellowship at Jack Jones Literary Arts.