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Maaza Mengiste salutes the soldiers written out of history in her captivating exploration of female power, and what it means to be a woman at war.
Maaza Mengiste was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She is the author of The Shadow King and Beneath the Lion’s Gaze.
She is a Fulbright Scholar and professor in the MFA in Creative Writing & Literary Translation programme at Queens College Her work can be found in the New Yorker, Granta, and the New York Times, among other publications. She lives in New York City.