Gregory Aboujaoude is a fiction writer based in San Francisco, Californa.
Gregory’s stories mix the personal with the political, the past with the present, the autobiographical with the imagined, and then flip it all on its head.
“Readers are in for a treat.”
- Al Young, Poet Laureate of California
His novel, How to Survive Mt. Lebanon, is about the impact of war and migration on one Lebanese-American family who return home to reclaim a fortune only to be trapped in a war — and changed for the better.
Gregory is currently working on a series of short stories based on his decades defending Black, brown, and poor people unjustly charged with crimes in San Francisco. In these stories, relatable do-gooders face dilemmas of love and morality familiar to our world but with a twist.
Gregory Aboujaoude grew up in a large Lebanese-American family in Niagara Falls, NY. He holds a BA in humanities, a JD, and an MA in psychology, and has worked as the residential manager of a homeless shelter, a guard in a prison for teens, a creative writing instructor at an art college, for the Department of Justice, for the US Courts of Appeals, and as a private investigator and as a psychotherapist. After law school, he pursued an MFA, and soon after, began How to Survive Mt. Lebanon, a novel based on his family’s attempt to hold onto their home near Beirut through the wars in Lebanon in the 1970s and 80s.
He lives with his spouse, two kids, and a dog that he insists is not his responsibility. He writes poetry for fun.