Rawaan Alkhatib is a content developer at Ralph Appelbaum Associates, the world's oldest and largest practice dedicated to the planning and design of museums and narrative environments. She holds an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a BA from Brown University. When she's not visiting, designing, or writing about museums, she creates work across a variety of media, including painting, textile design, and food. Rawaan is the author and illustrator of the date-centric cookbook Hot Date!, named a best cookbook of the year by The New Yorker, Real Simple, Serious Eats, Amazon, and Publishers Weekly. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her spouse and child.