Emily Raboteau (born 1976) is an American fiction writer and essayist. She is professor of creative writing at the City College of New York.
Emily Raboteau was born in 1976, the daughter of Princeton University professor Albert J. Raboteau. She grew up in New Jersey.
She received an undergraduate degree at Yale University and an MFA from New York University. She teaches at City College of New York.
Raboteau's writing has been published in The Guardian, The New York Times, New York Review of Books, Oxford American, The Believer, Guernica, The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Best American Mystery and Suspense, and The Best African American Essays.
Her first novel The Professor's Daughter was published in 2005. Her second book, Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora, a work of creative nonfiction, was published in 2013 and won a 2014 American Book Award.
She is professor of creative writing at the City College of New York.
Raboteau has received the Pushcart Prize, the Chicago Tribune<nowiki/>'s Nelson Algren Award, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Raboteau married novelist Victor LaValle. They have two children.