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Mahtem Shiferraw

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Ethiopia

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Mahtem Shiferraw is a writer and visual artist from Ethiopia and Eritrea. Her work has been published in various literary magazines, including Callaloo, Prairie Schooner, Poets.org, The 2River View, Luna Luna Magazine, Diverse Voices Quarterly, Numero Cinq, and more. Her short story The River received an Honorable Mention at Glimmer Train’s Open Fiction Contest. In 2016, she won the Sillerman Prize for African Poets and her full-length collection, FUCHSIA, was published by the University of Nebraska Press. Her poetry chapbook, BEHIND WALLS & GLASS, was published by Finishing Line Press. Her most recent collection, YOUR BODY IS WAR, is out now from the University of Nebraska Press. She has served as editor for Atlas and Alice, The Bleeding L ...more

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Average rating: 4.21 · 156 ratings · 32 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Addis Ababa Noir (Akashic Noir) by Maaza Mengiste (Editor), Sulaiman Addonia (Contributor), Mikael Awake (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.52 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Your Body Is War 4.47 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fuchsia (African Poetry Book) by Mahtem Shiferraw, Kwame Dawes (Foreword) 3.95 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry by Joanne V. Gabbin (Editor), Lauren K. Alleyne (Editor), Rita Dove (Foreword) 4.45 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nomenclatures of Invisibility (American Poets Continuum Series, 200) 4.45 avg rating — 20 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Behind Walls & Glass 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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