Maaza Mengiste

Maaza Mengiste is a current MFA candidate in Fiction at New York University, where she also teaches and serves as the International Editor of the Washington Square Review. She is the recepient of the Avery Hopwood Literary Award, has been named a finalist for Glimmer Train Press' Short Story Award for New Writers, and was selected as one of their Top 25 Finalists in the Fiction Open Competition. She has also won grants for filmmaking and photography. Maaza is currently completing a novel that takes place during the Communist revolution in Ethiopia, and she is writing a collection of short stories based on musicians.