About the Author

Dawit Gebremichael Habte is an Eritrean American, father, husband, software engineer, and writer. Raised in a tiny village just south of Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, Dawit fled to Kenya as a teenager and sought asylum in the United States. He has been featured in the USA Today, New York Times, and Johns Hopkins Gazette and has written for Dahai, Madot, Tesfa News--Eritrean publications. He lives in Maryland with his wife and five children and works for Bloomberg.