Fellow Spotlight: Maaza Mengiste
Maaza Mengiste is writing a novel set at the outer edges of 1930s Berlin.
Maaza Mengiste is a novelist, essayist, and professor of English at Wesleyan University. At the Academy, she is woking on a book set in 1930s Berlin that explores marginalized multi-ethnic and multireligious communities amid the rise of Nazism and the alliances they formed for survival.
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