Anne Shulock is a journalist living in San Francisco. Her writing has appeared in publications such as The Millions, Salon and Sactown magazine, and she blogs on Open Salon. Most recently she was the editorial assistant at Zoetrope: All-Story, where she searched for the next great short story writer in the slush pile.
Dinaw Mengestu’s name may be hard to pronounce (dih-NOW men-GUESS-too), but you’ll soon be hearing it a lot more. Earlier this year, the Ethiopian-born author was named to The New Yorker’s…