Laila Lalami is the author of five books, including The Moor’s Account (Pantheon, 2014), which won multiple awards and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Her most recent novel, The Other Americans (Pantheon, 2019), was a national bestseller, won the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. She has been awarded fellowships from the British Council, the Fulbright Program, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. She is currently Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California at Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles.