Meron Hadero is an Ethiopian-American writer. She was born in

Addis Ababa Addis Ababa (; am, አዲስ አበባ, , new flower ; also known as , lit. "natural spring" in Oromo), is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia. It is also served as major administrative center of the Oromia Region. In the 2007 census, t ...

Career

An immigrant to Germany residing in United States, she earned her degree in history from

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, MFA from

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and JD from

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. Hadero's work has appeared in '' Best American Short Stories'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''Addis Ababa Noir'', and ''40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology''. She has received the

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, Ragdale, and MacDowell fellowships and was a Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University. Her debut short story collection, ''A Down home meal for these difficult times'', was published in 2022 by

Restless Books Restless Books is an independent, non-profit publisher located in Brooklyn, New York. Restless publishes "international works of fiction, journalism, memoirs, travel writing, and illustrated books." The press published 15-20 titles a year, includ ...

won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing. It was also a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize in 2023. Meron also served as a

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for the

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Bibliography

* ''A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times'' ( Canongate Books) 2022 * ''Sense of Hope''

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hadero, Meron Living people 21st-century American women writers American women academics Ethiopian emigrants to the United States Ethiopian women writers People from Addis Ababa Year of birth missing (living people)