Maaza Mengiste

Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Maaza Mengiste is a Fulbright Scholar and the author of Beneath the Lion’s Gaze and The Shadow King, which was a finalist for the 2020 Booker Prize. Mengiste is the recipient of a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work can be found in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Granta, the Guardian, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and BBC, among other places. She lives in New York City.