Melanie S. Hatter’s most recent novel Malawi’s Sisters (Four Way Books 2019) won the inaugural Kimbilio National Fiction Prize, selected by Edwidge Danticat. She is also the author of The Color of My Soul, and Let No One Weep for Me, Stories of Love and Loss. She is a participating author in the PEN/Faulkner Writers in Schools program in Washington, D.C., and serves on the board of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation.