Mihret Sibhat was born and raised in Ethiopia before moving to California at 17. Her debut novel, The History of a Difficult Child, won a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. A graduate of the University of Minnesota’s MFA program in Creative Writing, she was a recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grant. Her essays have appeared in the LA Times, The Paris Review[Daily], LitHub, and Electric Literature. She is currently revising her second novel, The Door of No Refund.

Photo by Amanueal Daba.