Eman Quotah's debut novel, "Bride of the Sea," won the Arab American Book Award for fiction in 2022. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, USA Today, Necessary Fiction, Witness, Guernica, The Rumpus, Jellyfish Review, Kweli, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, ArabLit Quarterly, The Markaz Review and other publications. She lives with her family near Washington, D.C.