Raquel Baker

  
  • Graduate student
  • Twitter: @rhakib

Raquel Lisette Baker is working on a PhD in English Literary Studies at The University of Iowa, specializing in Postcolonial Studies with an emphasis in Southern African Literatures in English. She received a BA in Psychology from San Francisco State University and a MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College in Oakland, California. She teaches Literature courses. She has published her short stories and non-fiction in Little Village, The Womanist literary magazine and the anthology Crux . She is currently working on an article on Ngugi wa Thiongo’s novel Wizard of the Crow.