Rawaan Alkhatib is a full-time museum spatial designer at the world-renowned Ralph Appelbaum Associates. She holds an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and when she’s not visiting, designing, or writing about museums, she creates work across a variety of mediums, including writing, painting, textile design, and food. She is the author and illustrator of the date-centric cookbook Hot Date! and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her spouse and child.