Meron Hadero is an Ethiopian-American who was born in Addis Ababa and came to the U.S. in her childhood via Germany. Winner of the 2020 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, her short stories have been shortlisted for the 2019 Caine Prize for African Writing and appear in Best American Short Stories, Ploughshares, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Zyzzyva, The New England Review, The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, Addis Ababa Noir, 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology, and others. Her writing has also been published in The New York Times Book Review, the anthology The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, and will appear in the forthcoming anthology Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us. Her work has been supported by the International Institute at the University of Michigan, the Elizabeth George Foundation, and Artist Trust. A 2019-2020 Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University, Meron has also held fellowships at the World Affairs Council, Yaddo, Ragdale, and MacDowell, where she received an NEA award. She appeared in San Francisco Magazine’s 2018 feature “Making Waves: 100 Artists Putting the East Bay on the Map” described as “a master list of musicians, artists, writers, dancers, directors, actors, and poets shaping the culture, all from the East Bay.” Meron is a member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto, an alum of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation where she worked as a research analyst for the President of Global Development, and holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan, a JD from Yale Law School (Washington State Bar), and a BA in history from Princeton with a certificate in American studies. 

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