Thérèse Soukar Chehade

Thérèse Soukar Chehade grew up in Beirut, Lebanon, and was a teenager when the Lebanese Civil War broke out in 1975. She moved to the United States in 1983, where she earned an MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her first novel, Loom, won the 2011 Arab American Book Award for fiction. She lives in Western Massachusetts.