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Magdalawit Makonnen

Makonnen was born and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She read for an English degree at UCLA and is currently studying for an MFA at Antioch University, Los Angeles. She has been published in many journals.

In African Writing:

Wheat on Grass 11 (Poem)

Knotting elbows, we’d always go walking, and would
look back for the treasures we might have left behind.
It was okay for us to look back then;
for children can do so and survive.

continues...

Magdalawit Makonnen

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