Myriam J. A. Chancy

Contributing author

Myriam is an award-winning Haitian-Canadian/American writer born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and subsequently raised there and in Canada. She is the author of What Storm, What Thunder, a novel on the 2010 Haiti earthquake (HarperCollins Canada/Tin House USA 2021), awarded a 2022 American Book Award (ABA) from the Before Columbus Foundation, and named a "Best Book of 2021," by NPR, Kirkus, the Chicago Public Library, the New York Public Library, Library Journal, the Boston Globe, Amazon Books & Canada's Globe & Mail. WS, WT was also shortlisted for the Caliba Golden Poppy Award, Aspen Words Literary Prize, the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize & longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize.

Her past novels include: The Loneliness of Angels, winner of the 2011 Guyana Prize in Literature Caribbean Award, for Best Fiction 2010; The Scorpion’s Claw and Spirit of Haiti, shortlisted in the Best First Book Category, Canada/Caribbean region of the Commonwealth Prize, 2004. Her recent writings have appeared in Whetstone.com Journal, Electric Literature, Guernica and Room Magazine.

She is also a Guggenheim Fellow & HBA Chair of the Humanities at Scripps College where she teaches courses in Caribbean Literature & Postcolonial Theory.