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Maaza Mengiste

Maaza Mengiste
Maaza Mengiste is a novelist and essayist. Her debut novel, Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, was selected by the Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African books and named one of the best books of 2010 by Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe and other publications. Her fiction and nonfiction can be found in The New Yorker, Granta, the Guardian, the New York Times, BBC Radio, and Lettre International, among other places. She was the 2013 Puterbaugh Fellow and a Runner-up for the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She currently serves on the boards of Words Without Borders and Warscapes.


Writing About the Forgotten Black Women of the Italo-Ethiopian War

Maaza Mengiste on Gender, Warfare, and Women's Bodies
September 24, 2019  By Maaza Mengiste
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Idra Novey on Bookstores, Despots, and Revolution

On Writing a Meditative Thriller for Today's Cultural Moment
November 5, 2018  By Maaza Mengiste
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What is the Writer’s Place in a Violent World?

Before we describe, we must first be willing to look
May 5, 2016  By Maaza Mengiste
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