Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes is a writer, researcher and poet from Lalibela, Ethiopia. He currently lives on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja in Western Australia, where he is the Director of the Centre for Human Rights Education at Curtin University. His memoir, የተስፋ ፈተና / Trials of Hope, won the 2024 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award.
