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'''Fatima Shaik''' is an [[Indian Americans|Indian-American]] and [[African Americans|African-American]] author and former  journalist. Her work explores contemporary social issues, especially that of the "African-American experience."<ref name="JacksonSun" /><ref name="CUNYtv">((cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHUguGTi-fE |title=African American Legends: Fatima Shaik, novelist, "The Mayor of New Orleans" and "On Mardi Gras Day"|publisher=[[CUNY TV]]))</ref>

Shaik’s research on the Société d’Economie, an early [[Black Catholicism|Black Catholic]] mutual aid society, received support from the [[Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities]] and the Kittredge Fund, and led to her 2021 book ''Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood''. That same year, she received the Louisiana Writer Award from the Louisiana Center for the Book and the [[State Library of Louisiana]].

Shaik is the subject of a film by director [[Kaveri Kaul]], who takes the author to Shaik's paternal grandfather’s birthplace in [[Kolkata]].<ref name="CunyTV">((cite web|title=Streetcar to Kolkata|url=http://hartleyfoundation.org/streetcar-to-kolkata|website=Hartley Film Foundation))</ref> Shaik is included in ''The Booklover’s Guide to New Orleans'' and the ''Encyclopedia of African American Writers''.

== Biography ==

=== Early life and education ===
Shaik was born in [[New Orleans]] and raised in the Historic Creole [[7th Ward of New Orleans|7th Ward]]. Her father was one of the first black aviators in the state.<ref name="Anchor Books">((cite book|last1=Stephens|first1=Brooke|title=Men We Cherish: African-American Women Praise the Men in Their Lives|year=1997|publisher=Anchor Books|isbn=0385485328|edition=1st|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/menwecherishafri00step))</ref><ref>((cite web|title=Mohamed Asa Joseph Shaik|url=http://obits.nola.com/obituaries/nola/obituary.aspx?pid=17014013|website=The Times Picayune Obituaries))</ref> Her mother was Lily Shaik, a native [[Louisiana French]] speaker and poet.<ref>((cite web|title=Papers, 1987-1988|url=https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/34917601|website=Archive Grid))</ref> Both taught in New Orleans public schools.<ref name="Anchor Books" /> 

Shaik's [[Bengalis|Bengali]] grandfather Shaik Mohamed Musa immigrated to the United States in the 1890s, settling in [[Tremé]] in 1896.<ref name="Bengali">((cite magazine|url=http://inthesetimes.com/article/14588/black_and_bengali |title=Black and Bengali |magazine=[[In These Times (publication)|In These Times]] |last=Shaik |first=Fatima |date=March 2, 2013 |access-date=June 1, 2017))</ref> Musa was a shopkeeper, who married Shaik's grandmother, a black woman with [[Louisiana Creole people|Creole]] and other [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] ancestry; Musa died shortly before the birth of their son, Fatima Shaik's father.<ref name="Bengali" />

Fatima Shaik attended [[Xavier University of Louisiana]] for two years before graduating from [[Boston University]] with a [[Bachelor of Science]], and [[New York University]] with a [[Master of Arts]]. She reported for the [[The Miami News|Miami News]] and [[The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate|New Orleans Times-Picayune]] before joining [[McGraw Hill Education|McGraw-Hill]] and working in editorial positions for a decade. She began teaching at [[Saint Peter's University|Saint Peter’s University]] in 1991. She served as the first director of the Communications program until 2001. She served as an assistant professor, and retired in 2020. As of 2021, she served as an adjunct faculty member.<ref>((cite book|last1=Dixon|first1=Nancy|title=N.O. Lit: 200 Years of New Orleans Literature|date=November 17, 2013|publisher=Lavender Inc.|isbn=978-1935084525|page=540))</ref><ref>((Cite web|title=Profile: Fatima Shaik|url=https://www.saintpeters.edu/academics/faculty/members/fatima-shaik/|access-date=19 July 2021|website=St. Peter's University))</ref><ref name=":0">((Cite web|title=PEN America: Fatima Shaik|date=15 December 2012 |url=https://pen.org/user/fatima-shaik/|access-date=19 July 2021))</ref>

Shaik was the subject of the 2022 documentary ''The Bengali'', which covers her journey to discover her family roots in India.<ref>((Cite news |last=July |first=Beandrea |date=2022-09-08 |title='The Bengali' Review: A Woman Reconnecting to Her Roots |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/08/movies/the-bengali-review.html |access-date=2023-04-08 |issn=0362-4331))</ref>

== Personal life ==
Shaik married the artist James Little in 1984.<ref>((cite web|last1=McGee|first1=Celia|title=Driven to Abstraction|url=http://www.artnews.com/2011/01/01/driven-to-abstraction/|website=Art News|date=January 2011 ))</ref>

== Works ==

=== Essays ===
Fatima Shaik’s personal essays reflect feminine, African-American New Orleans.<ref>((cite journal|title=Callaloo|date=Fall 2006|volume=29|issue=41|pages=1551–1559|jstor=2931164|publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press))</ref> Her essays written for ''In These Times'' cover the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina from 2005 to 2015.<ref>((cite web|url=http://inthesetimes.com/article/4901/chronically_displaced_in_nola|title=Chronically Displaced in NOLA|date=September 20, 2009|website=In These Times|last1=Shaik|first1=Fatima))</ref>

==== Narrative histories of Creole New Orleans ====
Among her essays and journal articles on New Orleans Creole culture are:

* [[PEN America|PEN American Center]] website “Translation, Semantics, and Race”<ref>((cite web|last1=Shaik|first1=Fatima|title=TRANSLATION, SEMANTICS, AND RACE|url=https://pen.org/fatima-shaik-translation-semantics-and-race|website=PEN America: The Freedom to Write|date=6 February 2012 ))</ref> which discussed the subversive political metaphors used by the French-language writing of the black community in the 19th century; The Jazz Archivist “The Economy Society and Community Support for Jazz”<ref>((cite journal|last1=Shaik|first1=Fatima|title=The Economy Society and Community Support of Jazz|journal=The Jazz Archivist|date=2004|volume=XVIII|pages=1–9|url=https://jazz.tulane.edu/sites/default/files/jazz/docs/jazz_archivist/Jazz_Archivist_vol18_2004.pdf))</ref>

The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and Kittredge Fund have supported her work to read and annotate 100 years of bi-weekly journals written by the members of the [[Economy Hall|Société d’Economie et d’Assistance Mutuelle]].

=== Fiction ===
==== Short story collections ====
For her work in trade fiction, Shaik has been praised as a writer in “the ranks of black women writers preserving the voice of the Afro-American experience.”<ref name="JacksonSun">((cite news|title=Novellas Jump with New Orleans Rhythm|date=February 21, 1988|agency=Jackson Sun))</ref>

The Mayor of New Orleans: Just Talking Jazz<ref>((cite book|title=The Mayor Of New Orleans: Just Talking Jazz|publisher=Creative Arts Book Co.|year=1987|isbn=9780887390500|last1=Shaik|first1=Fatima))</ref> was “the first publication in book form by this native of New Orleans whose keen ear for dialogue and languid style help capture the special ambiance of Southern Louisiana.” <ref name="publishersweekly.com">((cite news|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-88739-050-0|title=The Mayor of New Orleans: Just Talking Jazz Review|date=October 30, 1987|agency=Publishers Weekly))</ref>

''What Went Missing and What Got Found'' "is a lyrical short story collection with undertones of the blues.<ref>((Cite web |url=http://www.xula.edu/review/catalog/Fiction%20and%20CNF.html |title=Xavier Review Press |access-date=2016-11-03 |archive-date=2017-01-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116192857/http://www.xula.edu/review/catalog/Fiction%20and%20CNF.html |url-status=dead ))</ref>

Shaik’s stories have appeared in the anthologies African-American Literature,<ref>((cite book|last1=Young|first1=Al|title=African-American Literature|url=https://archive.org/details/africanamericanl00youn|url-access=registration|date=1996|publisher=Harper Collins|isbn=9780673990174 ))</ref> Streetlights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience,<ref>((cite book|last1=Austin|first1=Doris Jean|last2=Simmons|first2=Martin|title=Streetlights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience|url=https://archive.org/details/streetlightsillu00dori|url-access=registration|date=1996|publisher=Penguin|isbn=9780140174717 ))</ref> Breaking Ice: Contemporary African-American Fiction,<ref>((cite book|last1=McMillan|first1=Terry|title=Breaking Ice: Contemporary African-American Fiction|url=https://archive.org/details/breakingiceanth100mcmi|url-access=registration|date=1990|publisher=Penguin-Viking|isbn=9780670825622 ))</ref> and in journals Killens Review of Arts and Letters,<ref>((cite journal|last1=Shaik|first1=Fatima|title=Bird Whistle|journal=Killens Review of Arts and Letters|date=Fall 2015|volume=7|issue=2|publisher=Medgar Evers College Center for Black Literature))</ref> Callaloo and the Southern Review.

==== Children’s and young adult literature ====
Shaik's books for children include Melitte,<ref>((cite book|last1=Shaik|first1=Fatima|title=Melitte|date=October 1, 1997|publisher=Dial|isbn=978-0803721067))</ref> a historical novel, which was nominated as one of the Best Books for Young Adults by [[Young Adult Library Services Association|YALSA]], 1998 and praised by [[The Horn Book Magazine|The Horn Book]], [[School Library Journal]], and [[Kirkus Reviews|Kirkus]]. The Jazz of Our Street<ref>((cite book|last1=Shaik|first1=Fatima|title=The Jazz of Our Street|date=May 1, 1998|publisher=Dial|isbn=978-0803718852))</ref> was “a compact cultural history” said Kirkus. On Mardi Gras Day<ref>((cite book|last1=Shaik|first1=Fatima|title=On Mardi Gras Day|date=February 1, 1999|publisher=Dial|isbn=978-0803714427))</ref> was one of the Best Holiday Books of 1999, according to the [[Bank Street College of Education]].

She is the co-chair of the Children’s and Young Adult Book Committee for PEN American Center and participated in PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature.<ref>((cite web|last1=Geter|first1=Hafizah|last2=Aiello|first2=Antonio|title=Truth and Solutions: Roundtable on Equity in Children's and Young Adult Book Publishing|url=https://pen.org/panel-discussion/truth-and-solutions-roundtable-equity-childrens-and-young-adult-book-publishing|website=PEN America: The Freedom to Write|date=3 March 2016 ))</ref>

== Awards and honors ==
Shaik received a fellowship from the [[National Endowment for the Humanities]] to study Aesthetics and Popular Culture at the [[University of Chicago]] in 1981. As an emerging writer, Shaik was named, along with Rita Dove, David Bradley, Mark Mathabane, and Trey Ellis, as one of five writers under 35 who "...will play a significant role in shaping the future of Afro-American literature in the 21st century.” Fall 1989 by the [[Forsyth County Public Library|Forsythe County Public Library]].

Shaik held a literature residency at the [[Orleans Parish School Board|New Orleans Public Schools]] Africana Studies Program in October 2002. She was a Scholar in Residence at New York University in 2004.<ref>((cite web|title=Fatima Shaik|url=http://www.pw.org/content/fatima_shaik_2|website=Poets and Writers: Directory of Writers))</ref>

She is a member of the Board of Trustees for PEN American Center<ref name=":0" /> and former board member of the Writers Room in New York City.

In 2021, she received the 22nd annual Louisiana Writer Award from the [[State Library of Louisiana]].

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