Zakiya Dalila Harris

Zakiya Dalila Harris (born October 20, 1992) is an American author. She is best known for her bestselling debut novel The Other Black Girl, which was adapted into a television series for Hulu. Early life and education Harris was born and raised in Hamden, Connecticut. Her father, Frank Harris III, is a professor at Southern Connecticut State University and former journalist for the Hartford Courant. Her sister is writer and NPR podcaster Aisha Harris. Harris received her bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her MFA in nonfiction creative writing from The New School. Career Harris spent nearly three years at Knopf Doubleday, an imprint of Penguin Random House, first as an editorial assistant then as assistant editor, before leaving to write her debut novel The Other Black Girl. Her experiences working as an editor inspired the novel. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Guernica, and The Rumpus.