Draft:Mihret Sibhat

Mihret Sibhat is a writer who was born in Ethiopia and moved to the United States as a teenager. She graduated from California State University, Northridge, and was in the University of Minnesota’s MFA program. She was a 2019 Public Space Fellow and a 2019 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grantee. .

Her debut novel, The History of a Difficult Child, was published by Penguin Books in June 2023. The book is described as a tragicomic novel about the indomitable child of a scorned, formerly land-owning family who must grow up in the wake of Ethiopia’s socialist revolution