June 20 is the United Nations' World Refugee Day! This year we are thrilled to announced that author of A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times, Meron Hadero, and Restless Books publisher, Ilan Stavans will be in-converstaion virtually as part of the New York Public Library events honouring refugees around the world.

Meron was born in Adis Ababa Ethiopia and moved to Germany as a child. Her award winning collection of short sotries reflects the expereinces as a refugee through characters who often find themselves often find themselves caught between worlds. Join us for what promises to be an fascinating and uplifiting conversation.

Register here to secure your spot.

When: June 22, 6-7pm EST
Where: New York Public Library via Zoom

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Meron Hadero holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan, a JD from Yale Law School (Washington State Bar), and a BA in history from Princeton with a certificate in American studies. A 2019–2020 Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University, and a fellow at Yaddo, Ragdale, and MacDowell, Meron’s short stories have won the 2021 Caine Prize for African Writing, and appear in Best American Short Stories, Ploughshares, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Zyzzyva, The Iowa Review, Missouri Review, 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology, and others. Her forthcoming debut collection, A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times, was awarded the 2020 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.

Ilan Stavans is the Publisher of Restless Books and the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His books include On Borrowed Words, Spanglish, Dictionary Days, The Disappearance, and A Critic’s Journey. He has edited The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature, the three-volume set Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories, The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, among dozens of other volumes. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Chile’s Presidential Medal, the International Latino Book Award, and the Jewish Book Award. Stavans’s work, translated into twenty languages, has been adapted to the stage and screen. A cofounder of the Great Books Summer Program at Amherst, Stanford, Chicago, Oxford, and Dublin, he is the host of the NPR podcast "In Contrast."