Wilkes-Barre, Pa., March 29, 2023—Award-winning fiction writer Susan Muaddi Darraj will visit King’s College for a free public reading, question and answer, and book signing on Thursday, April 13, 2023, at 7:30 p.m. in the College’s Burke Auditorium.
Darraj, a writer of books for adults and children, won an American Book Award, two Arab American Book Awards, and a Maryland State Arts Council Independent Artists Award. In 2018, she was named a 2018 USA Artists Ford Fellow.
Darraj’s short story collection, A Curious Land: Stories from Home, was named the winner of the AWP Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, judged by Jaime Manrique. It also won the 2016 Arab American Book Award, a 2016 American Book Award, and was shortlisted for a Palestine Book Award. Her previous short story collection, The Inheritance of Exile, was published in 2007 by University of Notre Dame Press. For children, she has written numerous YA biographies, as well as the Farah Rocks chapter book series, the first to feature an Arab American protagonist.
Darraj lives in Baltimore, Maryland, and teaches English and creative writing at Harford Community College and the Johns Hopkins University. Learn more about Darraj at susanmdbooks.com.
The reading will be held in the Burke Auditorium on the first floor of the William G. McGowan School of Business. The event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase at the reading.