Laila Lalami

Assistant Professor
Office: 4127 INTS
Phone: (951) 827-3615
E-mail: laila.lalami@ucr.edu

Laila Lalami was born and raised in Morocco. She earned her B.A. in English from Universite Mohammed V in Rabat, her M.A. from University College, London, and her Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Southern California. Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an Oregon Literary Arts grant and a Fulbright Fellowship. Her debut book of fiction, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, was published in the fall of 2005 and has since been translated into Spanish, Dutch, French, Portuguese, and Italian. She was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2006. She is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California Riverside.