Layal Barakat received an M.F.A. from Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn, NY. She is at work on a novel, Next Year in Jerusalem.
Two Serious Ladies is named for the 1943 short novel by Jane Bowles.
“I have my happiness, which I guard like a wolf, and I have authority now and a certain amount of daring, which, if you remember correctly, I never had before.”
― Jane Bowles Two Serious Ladies