Biography
Zakiya Dalila Harris is an American writer. She is the author of the 2021 novel The Other Black Girl, a satire of the publishing industry that became a New York Times bestseller. The book was adapted into a ten-episode series for Hulu that premiered in 2023, for which Harris served as creator and writer.
Harris grew up in Hamden, Connecticut. She holds a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MFA in creative writing from The New School. Before publishing her debut novel she worked for nearly three years as an editorial assistant and then assistant editor at Knopf Doubleday, experiences that informed the novel. Her essays and reviews have appeared in publications including Esquire, Cosmopolitan, Guernica, The Rumpus and The New York Times.
