Meron Hadero is an Ethiopian-American who was born in Addis Ababa and came to the US via Germany as a young child. Meron's short stories have won the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing, and appear in Best American Short Stories, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology and others. She was a contributor to The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Live and has been published in the New York Times. A 2019- 2020 Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University, Meron 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. @meronhadero meronhadero.com.