Maaza Mengiste

Maaza Mengiste is the recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Scholar Program, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Arts Writers Grant Program. Her debut novel, Beneath the Lion's Gaze, was selected by the Guardian as one of the ten best contemporary African books and was named one of the best books of 2010 by the Christian Science Monitor and the Boston Globe. Her second novel, The Shadow King, was published in September 2019.

Maaza Mengiste is the recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Scholar Program, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Arts Writers Grant Program. Her debut novel, Beneath the Lion's Gaze, was selected by the Guardian as one of the ten best contemporary African books and was named one of the best books of 2010 by the Christian Science Monitor and the Boston Globe. Her second novel, The Shadow King, was published in September 2019. See less