Dinaw Mengestu

Dinaw Mengestu is the award-winning author of two previous novels, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2007) and How to Read the Air (2010). He is a graduate of Georgetown University and of Columbia University's M.F.A. program in fiction and the recipient of a 5 Under 35 award from the National Book Foundation and a 20 Under 40 award from The New Yorker . His journalism and fiction have appeared in such publications as Harper's Magazine, Granta, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and The Wall...See more

Dinaw Mengestu is the award-winning author of two previous novels, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2007) and How to Read the Air (2010). He is a graduate of Georgetown University and of Columbia University's M.F.A. program in fiction and the recipient of a 5 Under 35 award from the National Book Foundation and a 20 Under 40 award from The New Yorker . His journalism and fiction have appeared in such publications as Harper's Magazine, Granta, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and The Wall Street Journal . He is a recipient of a 2012 MacArthur Foundation genius grant and currently lives in New York City. See less