Myriam J. A. Chancy

Myriam J. A. Chancy, Ph.D. is a Guggenheim Fellow and Hartley Burr Alexander 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. Her forthcoming books include Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters (University of Texas Press, 2023), Spirit of Haiti (20^th anniversary edition, SUNY Press, 2023) and Village Weavers: A Novel (Tin House 2024). Her recent writings have appeared in Whetstone.com Journal, Electric Literature, and Guernica. Photo credit: N. Affonso, 2023