Myriam J. A. Chancy
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Myriam J. A. Chancy

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Myriam J. A. Chancy, Ph. D. (U of Iowa 1994), is a Haitian Canadian/American writer/scholar born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised there and in the Canadian cities of Quebec City and Winnipeg. She is the author, most recently, of the novel, Village Weavers (Tin House 2024). Her previous novel, What Storm, What Thunder (Tin House 2021), was her North American debut novel, on the 2010 Haiti earthquake. WS, WT was awarded an ABA from the Before Columbus Foundation. She previously published 3 novels in the UK, Spirit of Haiti (Mango 2003; SUNY 2023), a finalist in the Best First Book Category, Canada/Caribbean region, of the Commonwealth Prize 2004, The Scorpion's Claw (Peepal Tree Press 2005) and The Loneliness of Angels (Peepal Tree Press 2010), winner of the 2011 Guyana Prize Best Fiction Caribbean Award. She is also the author of 5 academic works, including Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women (Rutgers UP 1997) and Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters (UP Texas 2023). She is a fellow of the John S. Guggenheim Foundation and HBA Chair of the Humanities at Scripps College in California.
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