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Zara Raheem received her MFA from California State University, Long Beach. She is the recipient of the James I. Murashige Jr. Memorial award in fiction and was selected as one of 2019's Harriet Williams Emerging Writers. She is the author of The Retreat and The Marriage Clock which was named a "must-read book of the summer” by Cosmopolitan, POPSUGAR, Bustle, Book Riot, among others. She resides in Southern California where she teaches English and creative writing.