Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast.

Moms don't have time to read books. Thanks so much for listening to my podcast. If you like what you hear,

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Zana Arafat is the debut author of You Exist Too Much, a novel.

I had the great pleasure of interviewing Zana through the Center for Fiction during part of their Inside and Out 2020 pride event series, which was fantastic.

Zana is a Palestinian-American writer, teacher, and editor.

Her stories and essays have appeared in publications, including The New York Times, Granta, The Bel, teacher, and editor. Her stories and essays have appeared in publications

including The New York Times, Granta, The Believer, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Vice, and

many others. Her work has been an anticipated book for June of 2020 by Oda Oprah magazine,

L, Lit Hub, and so many others.

She has an MA in International Affairs from Columbia University and an MFA from Iowa.

She has taught writing at the University of Iowa, the School of the New York Times, the International Writing Program, and Sackett Street Writers,

as well as abroad in Jordan, Egypt, and Eritrea, where she taught creative writing as part of the U.S. State Department International Writing Program delegation.

She's also led workers for dreamers and DACA recipients through the Writers Guild Initiative.

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