Melanie S. Hatter is an award-winning author of two novels and one short story collection. Her most recent novel, “Malawi’s Sisters,” was selected by Edwidge Danticat as the winner of the inaugural Kimbilio National Fiction Prize and was published by Four Way Books in 2019. Her debut novel, “The Color of My Soul,” won the 2011 Washington Writers’ Publishing House Fiction Prize, and “Let No One Weep for Me, Stories of Love and Loss” was released in 2015. She is a participating author with the PEN/Faulkner Writers in Schools program and serves on the board of the Washington Writers’ Publishing House.

At GBF this year, Ms. Hatter will be moderating a panel featuring authors Jamila Minnicks and Nyani Nkrumah.

Twitter: @mshatter1