Laila Lalami

was born and raised in Morocco and studied English in Rabat, London and California. She is editor of the literary weblog www.moorishgirl.com, which was reviewed in USA Today and de Washington Post. In addition, articles by her have been published in among others the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Nation, The Baltimore Review and The Independent. Hoop en andere gevaarlijke verlangens (Hope and Other Dangerous Desires) is Laila Lalami’s fiction debut and was published in October 2005 with Algonquin Books. She lives in Portland, Oregon (US) with her husband and child.