Professor Raboteau is a novelist, essayist, memoirist and critic. She writes at the intersection of social and environmental justice, race, climate change, and public art. Her books are Lessons for Survival, a finalist for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize and the ASLE Book Award, Searching for Zion, winner of an American Book Award and finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the critically acclaimed novel, The Professor’s Daughter. Since the release of the 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, she has focused on writing longform essays about the climate crisis. A contributing editor at Orion Magazine and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, Raboteau’s distinctions include the Climate Narratives Prize, the Deadline Club Award in Feature Reporting, and grants and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, Anonymous Was a Woman, and Yaddo. She has served as nonfiction faculty at the Bread Loaf Environmental Writing Conference and is completing her fourth book (second novel), forthcoming from Henry Holt. 

BA Yale '98
MFA New York University '02

• The Professor's Daughter, a novel (Henry Holt & Co., 2005)

• Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora (Grove Atlantic, 2013)

• Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against 'the Apocalypse' (Henry Holt & Co., 2024)

• Endurance, a novel (forthcoming from Henry Holt & Co.)