The 2022 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is returning to in-person events! Join author of A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times (out June 28) and winner of the 2020 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and 2021 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing, Meron Hadero for an engaging panel on “Fiction: The Art & Craft of the Short Story. ” Meron will be in conversation with award-winning writers Said Sayrafiezadeh, Mariana Enriquez and Jocelyn Nicole Johnson. Discussion will be moderated by writer and literary critic John Freeman.

This is an indoor, ticketed event. Tickets are available online via the LA Times Festival of Books website.

When: April 23 at 12:30pm to 1:30pm PST
Where: Taper Hall 101, The University of Southern California

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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.