Sofia Samatar was born on October 24, 1971 in Indiana and lived in Tanzania, London, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Her father is from Somalia, and her mother is a Mennonite from North Dakota; she attended a Mennonite high school, and went to Goshen College in Indiana, also a Mennonite institution. She attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying African languages and literature. After getting her Master’s, she married
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