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Mihret Sibhat

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Mihret Sibhat was born and raised in a small town in western Ethiopia before moving to California when she was seventeen. A graduate of University of Minnesota's MFA program, she was a 2019 Public Space Fellow and a 2019 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grantee. In a previous life, she was a waitress, a nanny, an occasional shoe shiner, a propagandist, and a terrible gospel singer. She's currently a miserable Arsenal fan.

Books by Mihret Sibhat
The History of a Difficult Child
Mihret Sibhat

An exhilarating and tragicomic debut novel about the indomitable child of a scorned, formerly land-owning family in the wake of Ethiopia's socialist revolution.

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