Haiti Noir (27 page)

K
ETTLY
M
ARS
was born in Port-au-Prince in 1958, and she started writing at the beginning of the 1990s. Since then, she has won two literary prizes and her work has been translated into English, Italian, Dutch, German, and Japanese. She is a member of the Prix Littéraire Henri Deschamps.

N
ADINE
P
INEDE
is a graduate of Harvard University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. She earned her PhD at Indiana University and is an Elizabeth George Foundation Scholar at the Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA program. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the
New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Sampsonia Way, Radcliffe Quarterly, Literary Newsmakers, The Other Journal, A Lime Jewel,
and
Soundings Review.
She is working on a novel.

P
ATRICK
S
YLVAIN
is a poet, writer, photographer, and social critic. He works as a Haitian-language and -culture instructor at Brown University. He has been published in numerous anthologies and journals, and his work was recently featured on
PBS Newshour
as well as on NPR’s
Here and Now
. His bilingual poetry collection,
Love, Lust & Loss
, was published in 2005 by Mémoire D’Encrier.

M
ARIE
K
ETSIA
T
HEODORE
-P
HAREL
was born in Port-au-Prince and now lives in Homestead, Florida, with her family. Her writing has appeared in
Compost Magazine
,
Onyx
,
African Homefront
, and
Butterfly Ways: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States
, edited by Edwidge Danticat.

E
VELYNE
T
ROUILLOT
was born, lives, and works in Port-au-Prince. Her first novel,
Rosalie l’infâme,
was awarded the Prix Soroptimist de la romancière francophone in 2004. She has published three more novels, three collections of short novels, and two books of poetry—one in Creole and one in French. Her latest novel is
La mémoire aux abois
. Her work has been translated into German, Italian, and English. She has also written for theater.

K
ATIA
D. U
LYSSE
was born in Haiti. She holds a master’s degree in education from the College of Notre Dame, Maryland. Her stories and essays have appeared in
Phoebe
, the
Caribbean Writer, Poui, Macomère, Wadabagei, Calabash, Haiti Progres, The Butterfly’s Way
(edited by Edwidge Danticat),
Mozayik
(an all-Creole anthology), and other journals and anthologies. She is currently finalizing
Mouths Don’t Speak
, a collection of preand postquake stories. She lives in Baltimore.

G
ARY
V
ICTOR
was born in Port-au-Prince in 1958. He is a longtime contributor to
Le Nouvelliste
, Haiti’s best-known daily newspaper. He began his career by writing fiction for young adults in the youth edition of the newspaper. He has published nine collections of short stories and twelve novels, including
Saison de porcs (Pork Season)
and
Le cercle des époux infidels, (The Adulterer’s Circle).
He has also written for theater, television, and cinema.

M
ARVIN
V
ICTOR
was born in Port-au-Prince in December 1981. He is a painter and filmmaker. In 2007, he won the Young Francophone Writer Prize in France.

I
BI
A
ANU
Z
OBOI
was born in Port-au-Prince as Pascale Philantrope. Her writing can be found on the web, in literary journals, and anthologies including the award-winning
Dark Matter: Reading the Bones
. She is a recipient of a grant in literature and writing from the Brooklyn Arts Council for the Daughters of Anacaona Writing Project, a program for Haitian teen girls, and she has completed a young adult fantasy/science-fiction novel based on Haitian mythology. She lives in Brooklyn.

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