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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)

Books

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

• 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

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

"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,forthcoming 2025.

(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, Page Turners + Interview, YouTube (Montserrat & other Caribbean Islands, UK &France), May 11, 2024.

Guest Author, Take Two Panel with Barbara Lala, moderated by Alake Pilgrim, Bocas LiteraryFestival, Trinidad & Tobago, April 28, 2024.

Guest Panelist, 鈥淨uarreling with History,鈥� with Karen Lord and Christina Sharpe, moderated byAlyssa Trotz, Bocas Literary Festival, Trinidad & Tobago, April 27, 2024.

Guest Author, Reading Series, University of Colorado, Boulder Colorado, April 24, 2024.Guest Author, Caribbean Today Podcast with Andre Clarke, April 23, 2024.

Guest Author, Haitian Art Podcast with Eveline Pierre, Haiti Heritage Museum, Miami, FL, April 20, 2024.

Guest Author, Creative Writing Class & Public Reading (Village Weavers & What Storm, WhatThunder), Towson University, April 17, 2024.

Guest Speaker, 鈥淎utochthonomies: Deploying an an African Diasporic Reading Practice,鈥� Liberal Studies Global Cultures Committee Lecture, NYU, April 11, 2024.

Interview. "Myriam J. A. Chancy tells the story of two friends and the divide between Haiti & TheDR," CBC's Next Chapter, April 6, 2024.

Interview. "Can the fabric of a friendship be rewoven?" with Kerri Miller, Big Books & Bold IdeasPodcast, MPR News, April 5, 2024.

Interview. "Haiti's Unnatural Disasters w/ Myriam Chancy," Law & Disorder, KPFA Radio San Francisco, December 19, 2023.

Invited Author & Writing Workshop Leader, Hobart Festival of Women Writers 2022, Hobart, NY, September 9-11, 2022.

Guest Author, Cafe Con Libros & Brooklyn Caribbean Lit Festival in conversation with Marsha Messiah, WS, WT Paperback Book Launch. September 8, 2022.

Guest Author, Charis Books, Georgia, Virtual event in conversation with Cindy Allman (Book of Cinz), WS, WT Paperback Book Launch. August 28, 2022.

Keynote Address (virtual), 鈥�"Moving with": Consequences of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake,鈥� Carnival Week Conference, Bridgewater University, Moderated by Profs. Jos茅 Lara & Allyson Ferrante, March 24th, 2022.

Interview. 鈥淪aturdays with Joy Keys,鈥� Live Radio Interview, January 22, 2022.

Interview. 鈥淢yriam Chancy's novel explores the 'mythology and misunderstanding' that still surrounds Haiti's 2010 earthquake,鈥� As It Happens with Carol Off, CBC Radio, November 12, 2021.

Interview. 鈥淢yriam J. A. Chancy on the Intimate Power and Purpose of Fiction,鈥� Reading Women Podcast with Kendra, Archived Lit Hub, November 10, 2021.

Interview. 鈥淢yriam J. A. Chancy鈥檚 powerful new novel explores the tragedy of the 2010 earthquake,鈥� Writer鈥檚 & Company with Eleanor Wachtel, CBC Radio, November 5, 2021.

Book launch events for What Storm, What Thunder, virtual, organized by Tin House, with various venues and bookstores in the US, including Center for Fiction (with Nicole Dennis-Benn), Oct 6; East City Bookshop (with Sejal Shah), October 7; Harvard Bookstore (with Patrick Sylvain), October 8; Vroman鈥檚 Bookstore (with Masie Cochran), October 11; Book Passage (in-person book event & signing), October 14; Elliott Bay Book Co (with Angie Cruz), October 20; Odyssey Bookshop (with Jos茅 Olivarez), October 27; Boswell鈥檚 Book Co (with Mike Gauyo), October 28, 2021; Gwinnett Country Library, Decatur, GA, March 31, 2022.

Interview. 鈥淢yriam J. A. Chancy on Writing Haiti and Honoring Its Local Realities: Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of What Storm, What Thunder,鈥� Lit Hub, October 5, 2021.

Interview. 鈥淢yriam Chancy: What Storm, What Thunder,鈥� Between the Covers Podcast with David Naimon. October 5, 2021.

Interview. Ottawa Writer鈥檚 Festival Podcast, with Adrian Harewood, October 4, 2021.

Interview. 鈥溾�榃hat Storm, What Thunder鈥� brings to life voices from Haiti鈥檚 2010 earthquake,鈥� NPR Weekend Edition with Scott Simon. October 2, 2021.

Interview. 鈥淲hat Storm, What Thunder: An Interview with the Author Myriam J. A. Chancy,鈥� with Lue Palmer, RoomMagazine.com, September 22, 2021.

Interview. IG Live with Nathan Dize for Kwasmanvwa [crossing of voices], academic lit collective in Francophone/Haitian Literature, September 22, 2021.

Interview. 鈥淏lack Feminist in Public: Myriam Chancy Gives Voice to the Voiceless Among Survivors of Haiti鈥檚 2010 Earthquake,鈥� by Janell Hobson, September 7, 2021.

Interview. 鈥淐risis in Haiti and Humanitarian aid鈥� with Amara, 鈥淛azz & Social Justice program,鈥� WPFW Radio, Washington, DC/NY, August 25, 2021.

Interview. 鈥淢yriam J. A. Chancy Charts the Reverberations of a Disaster,鈥� by Louisa Ermelino. Publisher鈥檚 Weekly, May 21, 2021.

• American Book Award, for聽What Storm, What Thunder,聽Before Columbus Foundation, Fall 2022
• Shortlisted, Aspen Words Literary Prize, What Storm, What Thunder, April 2022.
• Mary W. Johnson Faculty Achievement Award, Outstanding Scholarship, 61传媒, 2019-2020 AY.
• Awarded Mid-Career 2014 John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Literary Criticism, April 2014; Fellowship term: 12 months, August 2014-August 2015.
• Winner, 2011, Guyana Prize for Literature Caribbean Award 2010, Best Book of Fiction, for The Loneliness of Angels (Peepal Tree Press, 2010), awarded by the Government of Guyana/University of Guyana Prize Trustees.
• The Loneliness of Angels -- Longlisted for 1st Bocas Prize in Caribbean Literature, Trinidad/Tobago, March 2011 (Shortlisted in Fiction category)
• Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award, English Graduate Student Association (EGSA), LSU, 2009.
• Nominated, Sigma Tau Delta (English Club), LSU, 鈥淔avorite Professor Award,鈥� November 2008.
• Nominated for Prince Claus Award (by Amina Mama, South Africa), Netherlands, 2005.
• Editor Emeritus, Meridians, 2005-Present.
• Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement (Meridians), Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ), 2004.
• 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.