Edwidge Danticat

Author, PEN/Malamud Award Winner

Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, MemoryThe Farming of Bones, and the novels-in-stories, The Dew Breaker, a 2005 Pen/Faulkner finalist. She is also the editor of The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States, The Beacon Best of 2000, and Haiti Noir, Haiti Noir 2. She has written seven books for young adults and children, as well as a travel narrative, After the Dance, and a collection of essays, Create Dangerously. She is a 2009 MacArthur Fellow. Her most recent book, Everything Inside: Stories, is a 2020 winner of The Story Prize, and the National Books Critics Circle Fiction Prize.