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Ph.D. in English Literature, University of Iowa, 1994. Dissertation: 鈥淚n Search of Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile鈥�

M.A. in English Literature, Dalhousie University, Canada, 1990. Thesis: 鈥淛ames Baldwin and the Dissolution of the Color Line鈥�

B.A., with honors (Four-Year Advanced) in English Literature, Minor of Arts in Philosophy, University of Manitoba, Canada, 1989.

English Lit./African Diaspora with specialization in: Caribbean Women's Literature (with specialization in Anglophone Caribbean and Haitian women's literature); Caribbean Literature 20th C. to Present; African American Lit. (Harlem Renaissance to Present). Theory: Postcolonial; Transnational/Feminist Theory. Creative Writing: Fiction.

Photography; film; pottery; food culture

• Core 3 (Scripps): Caribbean Women Writers; Postcolonial Anxieties
• James Baldwin Seminar (Africana/English)
• Women Writing/Memoir (Writing Program)
• Caribbean Literature & Postcolonial Theory (English/Humanities)
• Foundations in Postcolonial Theory (Humanities Program)
• Transnational Feminist Theory (CGU)
• Academic vs Creative Non/Fiction (Writing Program)
• Lemme Cook! The Art of Food Writing (Writing Program)

Books

Village Weavers. (Novel). Tin House, April 2 2024.

• Winner of the 2025 Bocas Prize in Caribbean Literature
• Winner of the 2025 Bocas Prize in Fiction
• A Time Magazine, Ms Magazine, and PureWow Best Book of April
• ShonaReads & 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Book of 2024

Spirit of Haiti. (Novel). SUNY: November 2023. 20th anniversary Reprint Edition.

• Gold Prize Winner, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award, LGBTQ+ Fiction Category2024

Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters. (Essays). October 2023, University of Texas Press.

• Winner: Isis Duarte Book Prize, Latin American Studies Association, Haiti/Dominican Republic Section, 2024.
• Longlisted: Non-Fiction, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2024.

What Storm, What Thunder 鈥� A novel on post-earthquake Haiti, HarperCollins Canada/Tin House USA, Fall 2021; Paperback published by Tin House, August 23/22.

• 2022 American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation
• Starred Reviews: Library Journal, Kirkus, Publisher鈥檚 Weekly
• Shortlisted for the Caliba Golden Poppy Award, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and longlisted for Brooklyn Public Library Prize & the OCM Bocas Prize.
• Named a "Best Book of 2021" by NPR, Kirkus, the Chicago Public Library, New York Public Library, Library Journal, Boston Globe, Amazon Books & Canada's Globe & Mail
• Named one of 10 Noteworthy Southern California Authors for 2021 by Southern California News Group (SCNG), January 30, 2021.
• People Magazine Best Book of the Week, October 18, 2021
• NPR Book of the Day, October 11, 2021
• Book of the Month Club Add-on Pick for October 2021
• Indie Next Pick for October 2021
• An Amazon Books Top 10 Pick for October 2021
• Named a 鈥渕ost anticipated鈥� book of Fall 2021 by AARP, TIME, Vulture, Good Housekeeping, Library Journal, She Reads, Hey Alma, Boston.com, Buzzfeed, The Washington Post, Thrillist, LitHub, The Chicago Tribune & Dandelion Chandelier
• Harvard Bookstore, Book Passage & Odyssey Bookstore First Editions Club Selection, Fall 2021

Autochthonomies: Transnationalism, Testimony and Transmission in the African Diaspora. (Guggenheim supported project). University Press of Illinois: March 2020.

From Sugar to Revolution: Women鈥檚 Visions of Haiti, Cuba and the Dominican Republic (Academic) Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2012.

The Loneliness of Angels (A Novel) Leeds, England: Peepal Tree Press, 2010.

The Scorpion鈥檚 Claw (A Novel) Leeds, England: Peepal Tree Press, 2005.

Spirit of Haiti. (A Novel) London, England: Mango Press, 2003.

Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997.

Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1997.

Translations

Eclairs/ Voix/ Tonnerres. French translation of What Storm, What Thunder (A Novel). Tr. Chlo茅 Savoie-Bernard; Ed. St茅phane Martelly. Montr茅al, Qu茅bec: Les Martiales, 脡ditions du Remue-M茅nage, September 2023.

LOAS. Spanish translation of Loneliness of Angels (A Novel). Tr. M贸nica Del Valle. Bog贸ta, Colombia: LaSir茅n Press; August 2020.

Englenes Ensomhed. (Translation of Loneliness of Angels) Tr. Iben H. Philipsen. Copenhagen, Denmark: Rebel With A Cause Press, March 2019.

Edited Volumes

Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism [Indiana UP & Smith College], Vol. 3, no. 2, 2003; Vol. 4, no. 1 & 2, 2004; Vol. 5, no. 1, 2005 [Acquisitions, Vol. 5, no. 2, 2005]

New Creative Writing

鈥渒enbe,鈥� Entry in Thinking from Black: A Lexicon. Ed. Tina Campt / The Practicing Refusal Collective. Knopf/Random House: Fall 2026.

鈥溾�榃hy don't you write in French or Krey貌l?鈥�: Query and Response,鈥� Full Stop. (Commissioned). Ed. Nat谩lia Affonso. Summer 2026.

鈥淒ancing with the Spirits: Home to Haiti,鈥� Mosaic Magazine. Ed. Roberto Garcia Vol. 44 (James Baldwin Centennial Issue). Fall 2025.

"Writing as an act of conjuring." Craft/Writing Column, Lit Hub. (Commissioned) April 5, 2024.

鈥淟oko (aka Loco, aka, the Rainwater Man),鈥� (new fiction) Room Magazine 45.2, Summer/Fall 2022.

鈥淒epartures,鈥� Guernica Magazine, November 3, 2021.

鈥淲hat Storm, What Thunder,鈥� (excerpt from novel, WS, WT), Lit Hub, October 18, 2021.

鈥淢yriam J. A. Chancy on Haiti鈥檚 Uncertain Future and What We Must Learn from It,鈥� OprahDaily.com, October 14, 2021.

鈥�9 Books About Love, Loss and Belonging Set in the Caribbean,鈥� Electric Literature, October 4, 2021.

鈥淟ong-Distance Haitian Cooking,鈥� October 4, 2021.

鈥淗aiti Deserves Careful Attention. An Author Recommends 4 Books to Help,鈥� NPR: World. August 23, 2021.

Essays

(Solicited Essay) 鈥淚f Women Ruled Haiti: A Speculative Future.鈥� In Black Feminist Theories: Transnational Approaches. Eds. Janell Hobson et al. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, September 2026.

(Solicited Essay/Response to Critics) 鈥淲hat Storm, What Thunder: Centering Community fromthe Margins in a Polyvocal Novel.鈥� Palimpsest. Vol 13: 1. Summer 2024.

(Solicited) 鈥淔oreword,鈥� Cruel Destiny & The White Negress: Two Novels by Cleante DesgravesValcin. Translated by Jeanne Jegousso. Eds. Nemmers & Jegousso. New Brunswick: RutgersUP, 2024.

(Solicited Essay) 鈥� "I Might Lose All My Life": Brother, I鈥檓 Dying and (Black) Immigration Discourse in the United States. Eds. Jana Braziel & Nad猫ge Clitandre. Bloomsbury Companion to Edwidge Danticat. Forthcoming, 2020.

(Solicited Essay) - "Phantom Limbs: Kinship, Racial Performance, and Liberation in Octavia Butler's Kindred." Literaturas de L铆ngua Inglesa: leituras interdisciplinares. Vol. 3 Spring 2019, R铆o, Brazil.

"African Diasporic Autochthonomies: A Syncretic Methodology for Liberatory Indigeneities." In Post/Colonialism and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Black Atlantic Ed. Jerome Branche. Routledge: 2018.

"On the Edge of Silence: l'(in)-imaginable and Gendered Representations of the Rwandan Genocide from Photography to Raoul Peck鈥檚 Sometimes in April." In Raoul Peck: Power, Politics, and the Political Imagination. Eds. Pressley-Sanon & Saint-Just. Lanham: Lexington-Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.

"Subjectivity in Motion: Caribbean Women's (Dis)Articulations of Being from Fanon/Cap茅cia to the Wonderful Adventures of Mary Seacole in Many Lands." Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy. Spring 2015.

Photography & Film

"Ayiti Alive!" One-woman show, Claremont Graduate University Art Gallery, February 3-14, 2020. 52 original digital photographs printed on aluminum sheets and DiBond.

"Ayiti Ch茅rie: Signs of Life 2011-2013," One-woman show, Fairfield Community Arts Center, Fairfield, OH, 32 original digital photographs printed on aluminum sheets (16x20-5x6), January 10-February 15, 2014. (10 prints sold to private collectors)

"Ayiti Ch茅rie: Signs of Life 2011-2013," One-woman show, Oxford Community Arts Center, Oxford, OH, 27 original digital photographs printed on aluminum sheets (16x20-5x6), March-April 2014. (4 prints sold to private collectors)

"Love & Forgiveness in Collectivity: Sant Atizana, Matenwa, LaGonav, Haiti," 13-minute video short, supported by the Fetzer Institute, premiered at Fetzer Institute Global Gathering, Assisi, Italy, September 2012.

Recent Talks, Interviews & Addresses

Guest Author/Speaker, 鈥淕lobal Port Cities Symposium,鈥� Tulane University, Global Humanities Center, January 22-23, 2026.

Guest Author, 鈥淗aiti: Past, Present & Futures,鈥� Campus talk, Stanford Department of History, African & African American Studies, Center for Latin American Studies/Global Studies, & Center for the Study of the Novel. Stanford University, Stanford, CA, March 3, 2026.

Guest Author, 鈥淏lack History Month: Immigrant Pioneer Women in America,鈥� Queens Public Library, Online Event, February 21, 2026.

Keynote Speaker, 鈥溾�淗aiti as Global Nexus: An African Diasporic Crossroads in the Americas,鈥� Africa on the Move International Conference, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, November 13, 2025 (via Zoom).

Guest Author, Literary Freedom Project, in conversation with Cleyvis Natera, Mott Haven Library/NYPL, Bronx, NY, July 19, 2025.

Guest Author, Lost City Books summer salon at The Line, with Rosa Hornsby Castellano, Ursula Villereal-Moura, and Rax King. Washington, D.C., July 2, 2025.

Guest Author, 鈥淥ne-on-One: Myriam J. A. Chancy in conversation with Denise deCaires Narain, Bocas Literary Festival, Trinidad & Tobago, May 3, 2025.

Guest Speaker, 鈥淗aiti in Time: Resistance and Survival Through Art,鈥� Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures & Latin American Cultural Center (LACC), Pittsburgh, PA, March 20-21, 2025.

Guest Author, Annual Global Readathon, with Kiese Laymon, Daniel Black and Julianne Malveaux, Consulate General of Canada in Atlanta & Georgia State University Center for Studies on Africa and Its Diaspora, February 25-26, 2025.

Keynote Address, 鈥淕lobal Connections: The Nexus of the World in Haiti,鈥� Haiti and The World: Global Encounters of the Present, Past and Future Conference, Rice University, February 7-8, 2025.

Guest Speaker, 鈥淧hilosophizing the Caribbean: Diaspora Panel,鈥� w/ Chike Jeffers & Deryck Murray, moderated by Rawle Gibbons, Caribbean Yard Campus (via Zoom), Trinidad & Tobago, November 26, 2024.

Guest Author, 鈥淐oming of Age Amid Political Unrest鈥� Panel w/ Joy Castro & Gina Mar铆a Balibrera, Main Program, Miami Book Fair, November 23, 2024.

Guest Author, 鈥淣arratives of Resistance: Unbreakable Bonds and Revolutionary Love鈥� Panel, w/ Edwidge Danticat & Fabienne Josaphat, Read Caribbean Program, Miami Book Fair, November 23, 2024.

Featured Author, Next Page Celebration Gala Dinner, Miami Book Fair, November 22, 2024.

Author Interview, 鈥淭rait D鈥橴nion鈥� show with hosts Roberto Donerval and Djenane Saint Fleur, WSRF Radio, Miami, November 21, 2024.

Guest Author, 鈥淭he Power of Character in Historical Fiction,鈥� w/ Christina Henr铆quez, Texas Book Festival, November 17, 2024.

Guest Speaker, 鈥淧reserving Haiti: Inscribing Home, History, and Hope in New Fiction," Henry Peyre Institute Lecture Series, Ph. D. Program in French at CUNY, Manhattan, November 1, 2024.

• Fiction Winner. OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago, April 6, 2025.
• Haitian Diaspora Award, 9th Annual Haiti International Film Festival, Hollywood, CA, August 17, 2004.
• One Maryland One Book Selection 2024, "Restorative Futures," for WS, WT, Maryland Humanities
• Winner. Isis Duarte Book Prize, LASA, Haiti/Dominican Republic Section, Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters, Spring 2024.
• Longlisted. OCM Bocas Prize 2024, Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters, Trinidad & Tobago
• Gold Winner. 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award, LBGTQ+ Fiction Category, Spirit of Haiti: A Novel
• Finalist. Prix des Libraires/Fiction/Hors-Qu茅bec 2024, 脡clairs/ Voix/ Tonnerres - French Translation of WS, WT, Montr茅al, Qu茅bec, Canada, 2023.
• Longlisted. Mid-Career Fiction Writer, Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize, New Literary Project/UC, Berkeley English Department, Fall 2022.
• Winner. American Book Award, What Storm, What Thunder, Before Columbus Foundation 2022.
• Shortlisted. Brooklyn Book Award, What Storm, What Thunder, November 2022.
• Shortlisted. Aspen Words Literary Prize, What Storm, What Thunder, April 2022.
• Longlisted. Bocas Literary Award, Fiction, What Storm, What Thunder, Spring 2022.
• Shortlisted. Caliba Golden Poppy Award, Fiction, What Storm, What Thunder, Fall 2021.
• Awarded. John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Literary Criticism, April 2014.
• Winner. Guyana Prize for Literature Caribbean Award 2010, Best Book of Fiction, for The Loneliness of Angels (Peepal Tree Press, 2010), Government of Guyana/University of Guyana Prize Trustees.
• Shortlisted. 1st Bocas Prize in Caribbean Literature, for The Loneliness of Angels, Trinidad/Tobago, March 2011.
• Shortlisted. Commonwealth Prize, Best First Book Category (Spirit of Haiti), Canada/Caribbean Region, 2004.
• Camargo Foundation Fellowship, Cassis, France, Fall 2001.
• Martin Luther King, Jr., C茅sar Ch脿vez, Rosa Parks, Visiting Professorship, University of Michigan, December 6, 2000.
• Winner. Outstanding Academic Book Award (OAB), 1997-1998, for Searching For Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile (Temple UP, 1997), from Choice, February 1999, American Library Association.
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship, Government of Canada, 1990-1994.