BOOKS BY WOMEN WRITERS OF HAITIAN DESCENT
In open defiance of the cultural norms that have limited their voices for centuries, today women writers of Haitian descent are creating bold, inspirational texts that turn the popular, canned, media-regulated view of Haiti and its diaspora on its head, and offer an honest, nuanced, and transgressive view of post-colonial Haitian society, its history, and culture. This list features not only familiar, literary powerhouses, like Roxane Gay and Edwidge Danticat, but up-and-coming authors who deserve recognition, like Katia Ulysse and Fabienne Josaphat.
(This list of books by women writers of Haitian descent does not include self-published books, or books published by vanity presses and other nontraditional publishers. The list does not include educational materials or children’s books.)
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- Elsie Augustave: The Roving Tree (Akashic Books, 2013) FICTION
- Rebecca N. Carmant: Sunshine on Stormy Seas (Lominy Books, 2015) POETRY
- Myriam J.A. Chancy: Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women (Rutgers University Press, 1997) NONFICTION
- Myriam J.A. Chancy: The Loneliness of Angels (Peepal Tree Press, 2010) FICTION
- Myriam J.A. Chancy: The Scorpion’s Claw (Peepal Tree Press, 2004) FICTION
- Myriam J.A. Chancy: Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile (Temple University Press, 1997) NONFICTION
- Karen Civil
- Edwidge Danticat on Amazon
- Kareen Delice-Kircher: Waking Up from your Parents’ American Dreams NONFICTION
- Jan J. Dominique: Memoir of an Amnesiac (Caribbean Studies Press, 2008) FICTION
- Carine Fabius: Ceremonies for Real Life (Wildcat Canyon, 2002) RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY
- Carine Fabius: Jagua, A Journey into Body Art from the Amazon (Kouraj Press, 2009)
- Carine Fabius: Saturday Comes (Kouraj Press, 2012)
- Carine Fabius: Sex, Cheese, and French Fries (Kouraj Press, 2012)
- M.J. (Jessica) Fievre: A Sky the Color of Chaos (Beating Windward, 2015) NONFICTION
- Roxane Gay: An Untamed State (2014) FICTION
- Roxane Gay: Ayiti (2011) FICTION<NONFICTION<POETRY
- Roxane Gay: Bad Feminist (2014) NONFICTION
- Fabienne Josaphat: Dancing in the Baron’s Shadow (Unnamed Press, 2016) FICTION
- Yanick Lahens: Aunt Resia and the Spirits (University of Nebraska Press, 2015) FICTION
- Yanick Lahens: The Colour of Dawn (Seren, 2013) FICTION
- Danielle Legros-Georges: Maroon (Curbstone Books, 2001) POETRY
- Kettly Mars: Savage Seasons (University of Nebraska Press, 2015) FICTION
- Lenelle Moise: Haiti Glass (City Lights / Sister Spit) (City Lights Publishers, 2014)
- Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell: The Company of Heaven: Stories from Haiti (University of Iowa Press, 2010) FICTION
- Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell: Crossroads and Unholy Water (Southern Illinois University Press, 2000) POETRY
- Nadine Pinede: An Invisible Geography (Finishing Line Press, 2012) POETRY
- Paulette Poujol-Oriol: Vale of Tears (Ibex Pub, 2005) FICTION
- Fabiola Sully: Finding the Way Home (Outskirts Press, 2009) POETRY
- Evelyne Trouillot: The Infamous Rosalie (University of Nebraska Press, 2013) FICTION
- Katia D. Ulysse: Drifting (Akashic Books, 2014) FICTION
- Marie Vieux-Chauvet: Love, Anger, Madness (Modern Library, 2010) FICTION
ANTHOLOGIES
Michèle Voltaire-Marcelin
(This list does not include self-published books, or books published by vanity presses and other nontraditional publishers.)
- Edwidge Danticat (ed.): Haiti Noir (Akashic Books, 2010)
- Edwidge Danticat (ed.): Haiti Noir II: The Classics (Akashic Books, 2014)
- Edwidge Danticat (ed.): The Butterfly’s Way (Soho Press, 2001)
- Roxane Gay (ed.): Girl Crush: Women’s Erotic Fantasies (Cleis Press, 2010)
- Claudine Michel (ed.): Brassage (Multicultural Women’s Presence, 2005)