DINAW MENGESTU _____________________________________________________________________________ EDUCATION Georgetown University, Washington, DC Bachelor of Arts, May 2000 Major: English; Minor: Philosophy Honors: First Honors; Community Scholars Fellow; Lannan Poetry Fellow Columbia University, New York, NY Master of Fine Arts, Concentration: Fiction, May 2005 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Lannan Chair in Poetics, Georgetown University. August 2012-Present. “Hybrid Forms” “The Writer’s Perspective” Adjunct Professor, New York University Paris Program June 2012-July 2012: “Fiction Workshop” Distinguished Writer in Residence, Tulane University August 2008-December 2008: “Advanced Fiction Workshop,” “Literary Nonfiction: Writer in the City” Lannan Visiting Professor, Georgetown University January 2007-May 2007: “Introduction to Fiction Workshop” Adjunct Professor, New York City College of Technology 2005, Summer: “Introduction to Composition,” USIP Summer Course AWARDS, HONORS MacArthur Fellowship, September 2012 Judge for the 2012 National Book Awards Ernest J Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, January 2012 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Finalist, 2011 Independent Book Seller Award, Finalist 2011 Hurston Wright Legacy Award, Finalist 2011 Vilceck Prize for Creative Promise, 2011 Premio Internationale Amalfi Coast, 2011 New York Times Notable Book, Chicago Tribune, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Barnes and Noble, Washington Post, Publisher Weekly, Library Journal, Miami Herald, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Best Book of the Year, 2010 New Yorker “20 under 40,” New York, NY 2010 International Literature Prize Finalist, Berlin, Germany 2010 & 2009 Athens Prize for Literature Longlist, Athens, Greece 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, 2008 New York Public Library Young Lions Award Finalist, 2008 Dylan Thomas Prize Finalist, Wales, UK 2008 Seattle Reads Featured Author, May 2008 Prix du Premier Roman Etranger, France, 2007 Grand Prix de Lectrices de Elle Finalist, France 2007 Prix Femina Etranger Deuxieme Selection, France 2007 National Book Award Foundation, 5 Under 35 Award, 2007 Guardian First Book Award, UK 2007 Lannan Fiction Fellowship, 2007 New York Times Notable Book, 2007 Guardian Best Books, UK 2007 New York Foundation for the Arts Fiction Fellowship, 2006 Departmental Research Fellowship, Columbia University, 2002 SELECTED CONFERENCES and LECTURES Hong Kong Literary Festival, November 2013 Middlebury College, Freshman Reads Author, Sept 2013 Festival America, Vincennes France, September 2012 Lannan Foundation Readings and Conversation Series, November 2011 Rochester Arts and Lectures Series, October 2011 St. Francis College, Walt Whitman Writer’s Series, October 2011 Connecticut College, International Writer’s Series, October 2011 Spartanburg County Library, Fall for Reading Speaker, October 2011 Georgetown Univeristy, Marino Family International Writer, September 2011 Edinburgh Internationl Book Festival, August 2011 Hay-on-Wye Book Festival, May 2011 Bates College, Language Arts Live Series, April 2011 Wesleyan University, Distinguished Writer’s Series, April 2011 Colgate University, Living Writers Series, December 2010 Smithsonian Museum of African Art, Brave New World Lecture, December 2010 Earlham College, Freshman Reads Guest Speaker, 2008 Bethune Cookman University, Writer’s Jubilee (Keynote Speaker), 2008 Harvard University, Guest Speaker, April 2008 New York University, Guest Speaker, March 2008 Hay Book Festival, May 2007 Edinburgh Book Festival, August 2007 Georgetown University Lannan Conference, September 2007 Duke University, Guest Speaker, November 2007 PUBLICATIONS Fiction “All Our Names,” Knopf. March 2014 “An Honest Exit,” New Yorker, July 12, 2010 How to Read the Air, Penguin Riverhead, October 2010 2 Foreign rights sold in the UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark , Brazil, Poland The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, Penguin Riverhead, March 2007 Foreign rights sold in the UK, France, Italy, Netherlands, Greece, Spain, Germany, Brazil, Israel, Romania, Bulgaria, Catalan, Portugal, Hungary, Turkey Nonfiction “Not A Click Away: Joseph Kony,” warscapes.com, April 2012 “My Personal Greek Myth,” The Wall Street Journal, July 2, 2011 “Into the Heart of Guyana,” New York Times Book Review, May 13 2011 “Once Upon a Life,” Guardian/Observer Magazine, UK January 30, 2011 “They Always Come in the Night,” Granta, February 2011 “Storying,” Mentors Monsters & Muses, Simon & Schuster, October 2009 “Big Money,” Granta, Fall 2009 “Why the Expats Left Paris, The Wall Street Journal, July 4, 2008 “Home at Last,” Brooklyn Was Mine, Riverhead Books 2008 “Children of War,” The New Statesman, June 14, 2007, London, UK “A Bend in the River V.S. Naipaul,” The Independent, May 2007, London, UK “Aiding Africa,” Farafina 10, August 2007, Lagos, Nigeria “Abducted at 14,” Jane Magazine, February 2007 “The Tragedy of Darfur,” Rolling Stone Magazine, September 21, 2006 “At the End of Lonely Street,” The New Leader, February 2004 3 .