Behind Walls & Glass

A poet and visual artist of Ethiopian and Eritrean heritage, Mahtem Shiferraw grew up between Ethiopia and Eritrea before immigrating to the United States. Her debut collection, Fuchsia (University of Nebraska Press, 2016), won the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, awarded by the African Poetry Book Fund. She later published Your Body Is War (University of Nebraska Press, 2019) and Nomenclatures of Invisibility (BOA Editions, 2023). Her poems appear in Prairie Schooner and Callaloo.