Thérèse Soukar Chehade

Thérèse Soukar Chehade grew up in Beirut and moved to the United States in 1983. She has an MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her first novel, Loom, was published in 2010 by Syracuse University Press and won the 2011 Arab American Award for fiction. She lives in Granby, MA, and teaches English at a nearby public school.