Wayétu Moore on Returning to Liberia

“There was no other place I could go for healing or the sort of answers I was looking for than my first home.”

Wayétu Moore is the author of She Would Be King, released by Graywolf Press in September, 2018, and a memoir, The Dragons, The Giant, The Women. She is the recipient of the 2019 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction. Moore is the founder of One Moore Book, a non-profit organization that creates and distributes culturally relevant books for underrepresented readers. Her first bookstore opened in Monrovia, Liberia in 2015.Her writing can be found in The New York Times, The Paris Review, Frieze Magazine, Guernica, The Atlantic Magazine and other publications.