Lulit Mekonnen

Lulit Mekonnen grew up amidst the aromatic wafts of coffee roasting in the Ethiopian highlands, where her family has farmed for generations. Her days are a blur of cooking, caring, and calculating, balancing the precarious economics of her street-food stall with the rhythms of the farm's seasons. A rift with her sibling leaves a gap in her heart, and she pours her loneliness and anxieties into late-night sessions of music-making, a solitary symphony amidst the whispers of night-breezes and the rustle of coffee leaves.