About the Author

Dinaw Mengestu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1978. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a fellowship in fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and was named a 20 under 40 writer to watch by "The New Yorker. "Mengestu s writing has appeared in "The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Harper s, Granta," and other publications. He lives with his family in Washington, D.C."