Jameelah Lang is an Arab-American writer and an Associate Professor of English at Rockhurst University. She holds a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston, where she served as Senior Nonfiction Editor for Gulf Coast and organizer for the award-winning Poison Pen Reading Series.
Her fiction and nonfiction appear or are forthcoming in The New England Review, The Kenyon Review, The Cincinnati Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Witness, Pleiades, and more. Her work has received fellowships and support from Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Hub City Writers Project, Sewanee Writers' Conference, and VCCA. She serves as Director of the Midwest Poets Series.
At MacDowell, Lang made progress on her memoir, Father Panic. A chapter from Father Panic titled "The Father, the Son" is forthcoming from The New England Review, and a previous chapter appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review. Father Panic chronicles her father’s time as a famed religious scholar in the years preceding and following September 11th and the ways the war with the Middle East reverberated throughout her family.
