Hiwot Adilow is an Ethiopian-American poet and vocalist from Philadelphia. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in Nepantla, Winter Tangenne, Vinyl Poetty and Prose, and elsewhere and has been anthologized in The BreakBeats Poets Vol 2.0: Black Girl Magic (Haymarket Books, 2018). She is a 2016 Callaloo Fellow and 2018 recipient of the Brunel International African Poetry Prize. Hiwot holds a BA in Anthropology with a certificate in African Studies from the University of WisconsinMadison where she was a member of the First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Learning Community.

Books by Hiwot Adilow:

Other poems on the web by Hiwot Adilow:
"Mushiraye"
"My Name Is Hiwot"

Hiwot Adilow's Website.

About ?In The House Of My Father:

"It's rare to encounter a first utterance of a young poet so fully formed, so stirring and singular and urgent as Hiwot Adilow's In the House of My Father. In the span of eighteen poems, Hiwot addresses with grace and formal dexterity domestic and divine loves, along with the conscious and unconscious violences we often commit in their pursuit. 'Everything I've done has been in Love's name,' she writes, then shows us: a tongue bitten 'dead raw,' a girl is an 'old house, burning.' Language becomes a kind of haven, shelter to step into after (or during) the storm: 'A hymn slithered from my throat, became a shawl.'"
—Kaveh Akbar