Edwidge Danticat - Haiti Noir

M.J. FIEVRE’Sshort stories and poems have appeared in P’an Ku, The Mom Egg, Healthy Stories , Writer’s Digest, Caribbean Writer, Pocket Smut, and 365 Days of Flash Fiction . She is a regular contributor to the online publication the Nervous Breakdown and a contributing editor for Vis.A.Vis magazine. She is the founding editor of Sliver of Stone magazine.

MARK KURLANSKYhas written twenty books of fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books, and has translated a novel by Emile Zola. Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, Salt: A World History, and Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea are among his best-known books. As a newspaper reporter, he covered Haiti and the Caribbean for eight years, and he continues to write on Caribbean themes.

YANICK LAHENSis the author of three short story collections, including Tante Réisa et les dieux, La petite corruption , and La folie était venue avec la pluie ; and two award-winning novels, Dans la maison du père and La couleur de l’aube , which has been translated into Italian and German. Her next book, Failles , about the earthquake in Haiti, will be published in France in 2011. She lives and works in Haiti.

JOSAPHAT-ROBERT LARGEwas born in Haiti in 1942 and moved to the United States in 1963 during the Duvalier dictatorship. He then studied English at Columbia University. A poet and novelist, he writes in French, Creole, and English. He is the author of five novels and four collections of poems. His novel Les terres entourées de larmes (Paris, 2002), was awarded the Grand Literary Prize of the French Caribbean in 2003.

KETTLY MARSwas born in Port-au-Prince in 1958, and she started writing at the beginning of the 1990s. Since then, she has won two literary prizes and her work has been translated into English, Italian, Dutch, German, and Japanese. She is a member of the Prix Littéraire Henri Deschamps.

NADINE PINEDEis a graduate of Harvard University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. She earned her PhD at Indiana University and is an Elizabeth George Foundation Scholar at the Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA program. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Sampsonia Way, Radcliffe Quarterly, Literary Newsmakers, The Other Journal, A Lime Jewel, and Soundings Review. She is working on a novel.

PATRICK SYLVAINis a poet, writer, photographer, and social critic. He works as a Haitian-language and -culture instructor at Brown University. He has been published in numerous anthologies and journals, and his work was recently featured on PBS Newshour as well as on NPR’s Here and Now . His bilingual poetry collection, Love, Lust & Loss , was published in 2005 by Mémoire D’Encrier.

MARIE KETSIA THEODORE-PHARELwas born in Port-au-Prince and now lives in Homestead, Florida, with her family. Her writing has appeared in Compost Magazine , Onyx , African Homefront , and Butterfly Ways: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States , edited by Edwidge Danticat.

EVELYNE TROUILLOTwas born, lives, and works in Port-au-Prince. Her first novel, Rosalie l’infâme, was awarded the Prix Soroptimist de la romancière francophone in 2004. She has published three more novels, three collections of short novels, and two books of poetry-one in Creole and one in French. Her latest novel is La mémoire aux abois . Her work has been translated into German, Italian, and English. She has also written for theater.

KATIA D. ULYSSEwas born in Haiti. She holds a master’s degree in education from the College of Notre Dame, Maryland. Her stories and essays have appeared in Phoebe , the Caribbean Writer, Poui, Macomère, Wadabagei, Calabash, Haiti Progres, The Butterfly’s Way (edited by Edwidge Danticat), Mozayik (an all-Creole anthology), and other journals and anthologies. She is currently finalizing Mouths Don’t Speak , a collection of preand postquake stories. She lives in Baltimore.

GARY VICTORwas born in Port-au-Prince in 1958. He is a longtime contributor to Le Nouvelliste , Haiti’s best-known daily newspaper. He began his career by writing fiction for young adults in the youth edition of the newspaper. He has published nine collections of short stories and twelve novels, including Saison de porcs (Pork Season) and Le cercle des époux infidels, (The Adulterer’s Circle). He has also written for theater, television, and cinema.

MARVIN VICTORwas born in Port-au-Prince in December 1981. He is a painter and filmmaker. In 2007, he won the Young Francophone Writer Prize in France.

IBI AANU ZOBOIwas born in Port-au-Prince as Pascale Philantrope. Her writing can be found on the web, in literary journals, and anthologies including the award-winning Dark Matter: Reading the Bones . She is a recipient of a grant in literature and writing from the Brooklyn Arts Council for the Daughters of Anacaona Writing Project, a program for Haitian teen girls, and she has completed a young adult fantasy/science-fiction novel based on Haitian mythology. She lives in Brooklyn.