Adam Reta is a short story writer and novelist. He published his debut collection of short stories in the mideighties and published his second short story collection, Mahlet, in 1989. Since then he has authored five short story collections and four novels, including the 932-page opus Yesenebet qelemat. He was born in Addis Ababa West and currently resides in Canada.
Hewan Semon (translator) is a student of Ethiopian history.
Bewketu Seyoum is an Ethiopian poet, novelist, and essayist who was born in Mankusa in 1980. He attended Addis Ababa University where he studied psychology. Seyoum is the author of four volumes of poetry, two novels, two collections of short fiction, and numerous essays. He is currently a writer in residence and research scholar at Chatham University in Pittsburgh.
Mahtem Shiferraw is a writer and visual artist from Ethiopia and Eritrea. Her work has appeared in Callaloo, Prairie Schooner, Poets.org, the 2River View, Luna Luna Magazine, Diverse Voices Quarterly, and Numéro Cinq. She received the Sillerman Prize for African Poets for her poetry collection Fuchsia, and has written two more collections, Behind Walls & Glass and Your Body Is War. She currently teaches at Pacific University’s low-residency program.
Teferi Nigussie Tafa is a prominent Oromo novelist, scholar, and filmmaker. He was born in Arsi, Bekoji. He is the author of the award-winning collection The Secret Death of Abba Gada, and has published dozens of articles in international academic journals. He has also produced films such as Qondalticha. He was an IIE-SRF visiting fellow at Norwich University in Vermont from 2017 to 2019. He is currently an adjunct professor at University of Northwestern in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Linda Yohannes is an Ethiopian writer from Addis Ababa. Since discovering her love for literature and the written word as a young girl, she has written poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Prufrock magazine, Jalada Africa, Brittle Paper, BBC Radio 4, Ethiopia Insight, and is forthcoming in Transition magazine. She is passionate about Ethiopia and intends to live the rest of her life there.