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Melanie S. Hatter

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Melanie S. Hatter is the author of two novels and one short story collection. Selected by Edwidge Danticat, Malawi's Sisters won the inaugural Kimbilio National Fiction Prize and is published by Four Way Books, 2019. 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 2014. Her short stories have appeared in The Whistling Fire, Defying Gravity, TimBookTu and Diverse Voices Quarterly. She was a runner-up winner in the Fiction category of the 2015 and 2016 Montgomery Writes contests sponsored by the Maryland Writers' Association.

She is a participating author with the PEN/Faulkner Writers in Schools program in Washington, D.C., and serves on ...more

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Average rating: 3.94 · 67 ratings · 13 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	Malawi's Sisters 3.93 avg rating — 40 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Defying Gravity: Fiction by DC-area Women by Richard Peabody (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Suzanne Stroh (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Arin Greenwood (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Melanie S. Hatter's Blog: Novel Now an E-book

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Excited to share that Malawi's Sisters is now available for pre-order on Amazon and bookstores.

Selected by Edwidge Danticat as the winner of the inaugural Kimbilio National Fiction Prize, Malawi’s Sisters is about the murder of a young black woman by a white man, and was inspired by the 2013 shooting of Renisha McBride.

Of Malawi’s Sisters, Edwidge Danticat writes:

“This story is both timely and wel Read more of this blog post »

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