AUTHOR PICTURES AND BIOS

Myriam J. A. Chancy is the author most recently of the novel Village Weavers (Tin House), a Time best book of April. Her previous novel, What Storm, What Thunder, was named a best book of the year by NPR, Kirkus, Library Journal, the Boston Globe, and The Globe and Mail ; shortlisted for the CALIBA Golden Poppy Award and Aspen Words Literary Prize; longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize and the OCM Bocas Prize; and awarded an ABA from the Before Columbus Foundation. Her past novels include The Loneliness of Angels, winner of the Guyana Prize for Literature Caribbean Award in Fiction and Spirit of Haiti, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize, Canada/Caribbean region. She is also the author of several nonfiction works, most recently: Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters. Recent writings have appeared in Whetstone Magazine, Electric Literature, and Lit Hub. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and HBA Chair in the Humanities at Scripps College in California.

Myriam J. A. Chancy, Ph.D. is a Guggenheim Fellow and HBA Chair of the Humanities at Scripps College. She is the author of What Storm, What Thunder, a novel on the 2010 Haiti earthquake (Harper Collins 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, as well as the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize & longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize. Her other novels include: The Loneliness of Angels, winner of the 2011 Guyana Prize in Literature Caribbean Award, for Best Fiction 2010; The Scorpion’s Claw; Spirit of Haiti, shortlisted in the Best First Book Category, Canada/Caribbean region of the Commonwealth Prize, 2004, reissued in a 20th anniversary edition in 2023; and Village Weavers, 2024. Her recent writings have appeared in Whetstone.com Journal, Electric Literature, and Guernica. 

Myriam J. A. Chancy is the author of several scholarly books and works of fiction, including most recently Village Weavers, and the widely acclaimed 2021 novel, What Storm, What Thunder. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and teaches in California.

Myriam J. A. Chancy is a Guggenheim Fellow and HBA Chair of the Humanities at Scripps College. She is the author of the Guggenheim-awarded book, Autochthonomies: Transnationalism, Testimony and Transmission in the African Diaspora, From Sugar to Revolution: Women’s Visions from Haiti, Cuba & The Dominican Republic, Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women, Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile, and her collected essays on the post-earthquake situation, Harvesting Haiti: Essays on Unnatural Disasters, which received the 2023 Isis Duarte Award from the Latin American Studies Association. She is also the author of four novels, among them  the Time Best book of April, Village Weavers, and What Storm, What Thunder, awarded an ABA Award 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,  & Canada's Globe & Mail. She served as an editorial advisory board member for PMLA from 2010-12, as a Humanities Advisor for the Fetzer Institute from 2011-13, and as a 2018 advisor for the John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.