Meron Hadero

Meron Hadero is an Ethiopian American writer. She is known for her debut collection, A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times published in 2022 by Restless Books.

Biography An immigrant to Germany residing in United States, she earned her degree in history from Princeton University, MFA from University of Michigan and JD from Yale Law School.

Hadero's work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, Ploughshares, Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Zyzzyva, Addis Ababa Noir, and 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology. She has received the Yaddo, Ragdale, and MacDowell fellowships and was a Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University.

Her debut short-story collection, A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times, was published in 2022 by Restless Books. It won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and "The Street Sweep", included in the collection, won the 2021 Caine Prize for African Writing. It was also a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize in 2023.

In addition to writing, Meron served as a research analyst for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Hurston/Wright Legacy Award PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Award notes Formerly called Preludes at the time given