WOMEN WRITERS OF HAITIAN DESCENT ACROSS THE WEB

From familiar publications like the New Yorker to lesser-known online outlets like My Brown Baby and everywhere in-between, women writers of Haitian descent are staking out their space in the online world and offering a post-colonial view of Haitian culture that is refreshing, informative, and innovative in approach. There is no limitation to the scope, genre and topics these women are exploring in their work.  Below is a list of online publications where you can find contemporary writers of Haitian descent.

Last update 05/11/18

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A-E

• Suze Baron: “Take Vladimir, He’s Good Company” (Nonfiction)
• Suze Baron: “Yo di / They Say” (Poetry)
• Mimerose Beaubrun: “In Dreaming: Nan Dòmi” (Poetry)
• France-Luce Benson: “Risen from the Dough” (Play)
• Patricia Biela: “Gray River” (Poetry)
• Patricia Biela: “In the Garden” (Poetry)
• Patricia Biela: “Mamie’s Hands” (Poetry)
• Patricia Biela: “A Plea for a Bathroom Scale” (Poetry)
• Patricia Biela: “Search and Rescue” (Poetry)
• Patricia Biela: “The Skinny on Savagery” (Poetry)
• Patricia Biela: “Still Thirsty” (Poetry)
• Patricia Biela: “Young, Gifted, and Black” after Nina Simone (Poetry)
• Boadiba: “Haiti Quake Journal” (Poetry)
• Boadiba: “Where Urban Legends Come to Life” (Poetry)
• Danielle Boursiquot: “Fit: One Woman’s Journey Getting Her Body Ready for a Baby of Her Own” (Nonfiction)
• Jennifer Celestin: “Chasing Summer” (Video)
• Jennifer Celestin: “Real Love” (Fiction)
• Myriam J.A. Chancy: “Apartheid in the Americas: Are You Haitian?” (Nonfiction)
• Myriam J.A. Chancy: “Dancing Words: Illness & The Writing Process” (Nonfiction)
• Myriam J.A. Chancy: “Haiti: Five Years After” (Nonfiction)
• Edwidge Danticat on The New Yorker (Nonfiction)
• Edwidge Danticat: “A Taste of Coffee” (Nonfiction)
• Edwidge Danticat: “Children of the Sea” (Fiction)
• Edwidge Danticat: “Hot-Air Balloons” (Fiction)
• Edwidge Danticat: “Quality Control” (Fiction)
• Edwidge Danticat: “The Revenant” (Fiction)
• Edwidge Danticat: “We Are Ugly, but We Are Here” (Nonfiction)
• Juderns Exceus: “Learning Creole” (Nonfiction)

F-J

• M.J. Fievre on The Nervous Breakdown (Nonfiction)
• M.J. Fievre: “Anger and Pubic Hair” (Nonfiction)
• M.J. Fievre: “Dark Days in Port-au-Prince, Part III” (Fiction)
• M.J. Fievre: “Golf Coast Dreams” (Poetry)
• M.J. Fievre: “Only in Miami” (Poetry)
• M.J. Fievre: “(The) Rainbow’s End” (Fiction)
• M.J. Fievre: “Right Now” (Poetry)
• M.J. Fievre: “Sinkhole” (Fiction)
• M.J. Fievre: “A Sky the Color of Chaos” (Nonfiction, Stand-alone chapter)
• M.J. Fievre: “Susan’s Diary” (Fiction)
• France François on Ebony.com
• Roxane Gay
• Roxane Gay: “Dark Days in Port-au-Prince, Part I” (Fiction)
• Roxane Gay: “Motherfuckers” (Fiction)
• Joanne Hyppolite: “Dyaspora” (Nonfiction)
• Militza Jean-Felix: “Seven Days in Port-au-Prince” (Video)
• Mirlande Jean-Gilles: “My Grandmother Danced” (Poetry)
• Fabienne Josaphat: “Catching Crazy” (Fiction)
• Fabienne Josaphat: “like fish, drowning” (Fiction)
• Fabienne Josaphat: “Neighbors Become Family, City Becomes Lakay” (Nonfiction)
• Fabienne Josaphat: “The Persistence of Wolves” (Nonfiction)
• Fabienne Josaphat: “Political Silence” (Poetry)
• Fabienne Josaphat: “Portrait of my Father in Law School” (Poetry)
• Fabienne Josaphat: “Supermarket Blue” (Poetry)
• Fabienne Josaphat: “Telephone Conversation I” (Poetry)

K-M

• Natasha Labaze: “Hunger” (Poetry)
• Marie-Thérèse Labossière Thomas: “The Big Business of Haitian Adoption” (Nonfiction)
• Marie-Thérèse Labossière Thomas: “My Cultural Marker: A Path to the Roots” (Nonfiction)
• Marie-Thérèse Labossière Thomas: “Haiti: In Conquest of Liberty” (Nonfiction)
• Marie-Thérèse Labossière Thomas: “Lessons Learned at a Mother’s Knee” (Nonfiction)
• Yanick Lahens: “Gloom” (Poetry)
• Yanick Lahens: “Time Stretches Out, and My Words Do, Too” (Nonfiction)
• Marylin Laurent: “An Angel on the Other Side of the Border” (Fiction)
• Danielle Legros-Georges: “Anacaona” (Poetry)
• Danielle Legros-Georges: “Danielle Legros-Georges Can’t Breathe” (Poetry”
• Danielle Legros-George: “(A) Credence” (Poetry)
• Danielle Legros-Georges: “Fillette” (Poetry)
• Danielle Legros-Georges: “Good-Bye” (Poetry)
• Danielle Legros-Georges: “Instances of Blue, Still Life in Green and Violet” (Poetry)
• Danielle Legros-Georges: “Intersection” (Poetry)
• Danielle Legros-Georges: “The List Grows,” “Passage,” “Eye in Eye,” “Three Men Sit on a Wooden Porch,”Mrs. Jean-Louis Listening to the Doctor,” Port-au-Prince Pyrotechnician,” and “To and From” (Poetry)
• Danielle Legros-Georges: “Poem for the Poorest Country in the Western Hemisphere” (Poetry)
• Danielle Legros-Georges: “Untiled” (Poetry)
• Danielle Legros-Georges: “You Will Listen to Me” (Poetry)
• Danielle Legros-Georges: “Your Insistence” (Poetry)
• Kettly Mars: from “At the Borders of Thirst“(Fiction)
• Nadève Ménard: “Neverending Story: Haiti’s Vibrant Literary Sphere Endures” (Nonfiction)
• Lenelle Moise on Youtube (Videos)

N-T

• Maryse Noel Roumain: “Remembering Kate” (Fiction)
• Margaret Papillon: “Amen! Amen!” (Fiction)
• Margaret Papillon: “The Kidnapping” (Fiction)
• Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell: “Dogs” (Fiction)
• Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell: “Invitation” (Poetry)
• Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell: “Saint Bernadette at Night” (Fiction)
• Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell: “Sanctuary” (Poetry)
• Isabelle Pierre-Rollin: “I Don’t Speak French” (Poetry)
• Nadine Pinede: Becoming Belgium: A Poem (Poetry)
• Nadine Pinede: “The Mountain Beyond” (Nonfiction)
• Jo-Ann Reid: “Tea Set” (Poetry)
• Maeva Renaud: “Ode to Ayiti” (Video)
• Mahalia Solages: “Becoming to Beheld” (Fiction)
• Mallory St. Brice: “After the Quake” (Video)
• Yolaine M. St Fort: “Flight” (Poetry)
• Yolaine M. St. Fort: “The Lesson” (Fiction)
• Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel: “Farewell to Arms” (Fiction)
• Evelyne Trouillot: “Primal Needs” (Fiction)
• Ella Turenne

U-Z

• Gina Athena Ulysse: “Gina Athena Ulysse Can’t Breathe” (Poetry)
• Katia D. Ulysse: “Birthday Song” (Poetry)
• Katia D. Ulysse: “Dark Days in Port-au-Prince, Part IV” (Fiction)
• Katia D. Ulysse: “Dawning of a New Day” (Nonfiction)
• Katia D. Ulysse: “Dear Teen Me” (Nonfiction)
• Katia D. Ulysse: “Doll Party” (Poetry)
• Katia D. Ulysse: “Feeding the Spirits”  (Nonfiction)
• Katia D. Ulysse: “A Haitian Grandmother’s Beloved Home“(Nonfiction)
• Katia D. Ulysse: “Kado” (Fiction)
• Katia D. Ulysse: “Rendezvous” (Fiction)
• Katia D. Ulysse: “Tragedians” (Nonfiction)
• Michèle Voltaire-Marcelin: “Dreamscapes” (Video)
• Michèle Voltaire-Marcelin: “The Rift” (Video)
• Michèle Voltaire-Marcelin: “I Want the Rift to Disappear” (Video)
• Michèle Voltaire-Marcelin: “Wild Wind” (Video)
• Ibi Aanu Zoboi: “Dark Days in Port-au-Prince, Part III” (Fiction)
• Ibi Aanu Zoboi: “The Fire in Your Sky” (Fiction)
• Ibi Aanu Zoboi: “The Little Golden Stoneman” (Fiction)
• Ibi Aanu Zoboi: “The Muralist” (Fiction)
• Ibi Aanu Zoboi: “The Other Bodies in Space” (Nonfiction)

 

Do you want to help improve the list of English-speaking women writers with ties to Haiti and/or whose work highlight island culture and interests? Please email me at fievrerouge@gmail.com.  (Sorry, no self-published texts)