Lecture and Book Signing

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Myriam J. A. Chancy is the author of the novel Village Weavers (Tin House), a Time Best Book of April 2024. Her work has received multiple awards, including an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, the Guyana Prize in Literature, a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Gold Prize, and the Isis Duarte Book Prize.

Her previous novel, What Storm, What Thunder, was named a Best Book of 2021 by NPR, Kirkus, Library Journal, The Boston Globe, and The Globe & Mail. It was also shortlisted for the Caliba Golden Poppy Award and the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize and the OCM Bocas Prize.

Her past novels include The Loneliness of Angels, The Scorpion’s Claw, and Spirit of Haiti. She is also the author of several academic books, including Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters and Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women.

Recent writings have appeared in Whetstone.com Journal, Electric Literature, and Lit Hub. Dr. Chancy is a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and Hartley Burr Alexander Chair of the Humanities at Scripps College in California.