Diana Abu-Jaber has lived in both Jordan and America, and is of Arab-American extraction. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Oregon. She has had work in M.S.S., Western Humanities Review, Pig iron Press, The Seattle Review, The Beloit Fiction Journal, and elsewhere. She has recently completed a fiction collection, as well as a novel about an Arab-American family living in upstate New York: an essay collection is in progress.