Maaza Mengiste

Biography

Maaza Mengiste is the award-winning author of The Shadow King (2019), an LA TImes Books Prize finalist, one of New York Times' Notable Books and TIME's Must-Read Books of 2019. Her first novel was Beneath the Lion's Gaze, published in 2010. She is the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, the Premio il ponte, and fellowships from the Fulbright Scholar Program to LiteraturHaus Zurich. Her work can be found in The New Yorker, New York Review of Books, Granta, the Guardian, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and BBC, among other publications.