Maaza Mengiste





Maaza Mengiste

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born
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

gender
female


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Maaza Mengiste was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University. A recent Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has appeared in New York Magazine, The Baltimore Review, Ninth Letter and 42opus, has been translated and published into German and Romanian for Lettre International, and can be found in the Seal Press anthology Homelands: Women's Journeys Across Race, Place and Time. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.


Average rating: 3.91 · 429 ratings · 126 reviews · 1 distinct work
Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A ...
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“We must not be anything other than what we are.”
Maaza Mengiste, Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel

“How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?”
Maaza Mengiste, Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel

“A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.”
Maaza Mengiste, Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel

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