Edwidge Danticat
Biographic Data
| ID | 416679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edwidge Danticat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edwidge |
| FAMILY NAME | Danticat |
| SIGNATURE | DANTICAT E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Crossing Another Mangrove
I first met Maryse Condé (1934–2024) soon after Breath, Eyes, Memory, my first novel, was published in 1994. We were on a panel at a women writers’ conference at a place I no longer remember, with
The Dangerous Job of Edwidge Danticat
All Geography Is Within Me
Following the performances of two Haitian-inspired dances at the 2018 festival, Danticat delivered the following keynote to the audience of several hundred in attendance
Poetry of Haitian Independence
Fault Lines
On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, killing more than a quarter-million people and leaving another two million Haitians homeless. This book is a searing account of the first year after the earthquake. It explores how strong communities and an age-old gift culture have helped Haitians survive in the wake of an unimaginable disaster, one that only compounded the preexisting social and economic distress of their society. Th…
Fault Lines
Ultimately a tale of hope, Fault Lines will give readers a new understanding of daily life, structural challenges, and collective dreams in one of the world's most complex countries
Walking on Fire
Walking on Fire: Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance, edited by Beverly Bell and introduced by Edwidge Danticat, amplifies the voices of Haitian women as they navigate the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake. Through poignant narratives, poems, and testimonies, the book reveals the strength, resilience, and resistance of these women in the face of profound loss, displacement, and ongoing struggles. It explores themes of co…
In the Old Days
In the Old Days Edwidge Danticat (bio) The call came on a Friday evening as I was lying in bed, grading student essays. “My husband,” the sniffling woman on the other end of the line said, “is dying and it seems that—” She paused and it sounded as though she was swallowing more air than she wanted to. “And it seems that his final wish is to spend a few minutes with you.” Once these words were out of the way, the woman’s voice grew a tad more firm…
Miras
Miras Edwidge Danticat (bio) I felt you reaching out to me one night. Or was it day? To stroke me just where time led you. It's still too hard for me to reach back, cup myself to fill your hand. God bless the resurrection that is this breath. But it does not give us a longer moment together. For we are walking in different directions. Our nine steps to eternity. Write me something in one of those tongues yet to be heard. They say there will be no…
Postscript
Postscript Edwidge Danticat (bio) my father is dyingno, not bed-boundyes, he still drives his cabnamed for wanderers, nomads, gypsiesmy faith has diminishedin modern herbsand ancient medicineas he shrinkswith each gluey breathi wish we could trade placesbut were i in his steadhe'd want to change with meso is this our faustian bargainwith his godsfor the pack a daythe pint a weekand all maleficent foodsdoes this meani never have to die? [End Page …
Trimester
Trimester Edwidge Danticat (bio) i miss the way a shot of klerenimmediately makes mewant to make wildpassionate nasty lovethe way chocolate calls to mindthe gentlest traits of lovers now despisedthe weight of a single hand on my hindmostas I read by the feeble lightof heated kerosenedrawing to us the one single flyin the entire house [End Page 411] Edwidge Danticat Edwidge Danticat, who was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is author of six books of…
An Interview with Edwidge Danticat
An Interview with Edwidge Danticat Michael S. Collins (bio) and Edwidge Danticat (bio) This interview was conducted via telephone on May 30, 2007, between College Station, Texas, and Miami, Florida. COLLINS: Dr. Rowell told me that when you received the Afro-Mexican issue, you were so struck and moved by it that you sent a short story to Callaloo, as a result. I'm just wondering, what struck you so about the issue? DANTICAT: I just loved it. I th…
Dyasporic Appetites and Longings
Dyasporic Appetites and Longings An Interview with Edwidge Danticat Nancy Raquel Mirabal . . . every meal is a reminder that we're not home. —Edwidge Danticat With a few words the author Edwidge Danticat captures the complicated and multiple connections among food, memory, and home. Food is home, regardless of whether we are there or not. It travels with us as seamlessly as does language, personal histories, and the faded photographs of the house…
Elsie
Elsie Edwidge Danticat (bio) Fleur was with her live-in "pulmonary fibrosis" when her ex-husband called to inform her that his girlfriend, Elsie, had been kidnapped in Port-au-Prince. Fleur had just fed Tiggs, the fibrosis patient, when her cell phone rang, spoon after spoon of heavily creamed spinach, which was meant to be digested easily while packing on calories. Tiggs was lying back in bed, his head carefully propped on two firm pillows, his …
Roundtable
Research Article| September 01 2005 Roundtable: Writing, History, and Revolution Dany Laferrière; Dany Laferrière Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Louis-Philippe Dalembert; Louis-Philippe Dalembert Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Edwidge Danticat; Edwidge Danticat Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Évelyne Trouillot; Évelyne Trouillot Search for other works by this autho…
Voices from Hispaniola
Voices from HispaniolaA Meridians Roundtable with Edwidge Danticat, Loida Maritza Pérez, Myriam J. A. Chancy, and Nelly Rosario Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Special Section. Art: From Silk Scarf, painted in the village of Matenwa, Lagonav, Haiti, by the Atis Fanm Matenwa/Women Artists of Matenwa Project [End Page 68] In October 2003, Meridians hosted its first Caribbean Women Writers Series, Voices from Hispaniola: Haiti a…
Tatiana, Mon Amour
Tatiana called. Drew whispered into the phone in Portuguese. As he buried his fingers in his bristly sable hair, he looked at the floor and at the carnival posters on his living room walls, but he never looked at me
Create Dangerously
Focuses on art and exile, examining what it means to be an immigrant artist from a country in crisis. This title tells the stories of artists, including the author, who create despite, or because of, the horrors that drove them from their homelands and that continue to haunt them
Night Talkers
The Farming of Bones
The Dangerous Job of Edwidge Danticat
Callaloo - Volume 19, Number 2, Spring 1996
"From "The Journals of Water Days 1986
The Journals of Water Days 1986An Excerpt Edwidge Danticat (bio) We cowered beneath our beds as bullets caved in the sheets of plastic we put up as windows. My mother was choking on gun powder and tiny splinters of wood, but somehow she managed to hold in her cough. I felt her tears float across my cheeks, but I kept my eyes closed. Outside, the military trucks roared up and down the narrow spaces between the shanties. It was different from the s…
The Farming of Bones
Dyasporic Appetites and Longings
Dyasporic Appetites and Longings An Interview with Edwidge Danticat Nancy Raquel Mirabal . . . every meal is a reminder that we're not home. —Edwidge Danticat With a few words the author Edwidge Danticat captures the complicated and multiple connections among food, memory, and home. Food is home, regardless of whether we are there or not. It travels with us as seamlessly as does language, personal histories, and the faded photographs of the house…
Voices from Hispaniola
Voices from HispaniolaA Meridians Roundtable with Edwidge Danticat, Loida Maritza Pérez, Myriam J. A. Chancy, and Nelly Rosario Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Special Section. Art: From Silk Scarf, painted in the village of Matenwa, Lagonav, Haiti, by the Atis Fanm Matenwa/Women Artists of Matenwa Project [End Page 68] In October 2003, Meridians hosted its first Caribbean Women Writers Series, Voices from Hispaniola: Haiti a…
The Dangerous Job of Edwidge Danticat
Callaloo - Volume 19, Number 2, Spring 1996
The Dangerous Job of Edwidge Danticat
Callaloo - Volume 19, Number 2, Spring 1996
"From "The Journals of Water Days 1986
The Journals of Water Days 1986An Excerpt Edwidge Danticat (bio) We cowered beneath our beds as bullets caved in the sheets of plastic we put up as windows. My mother was choking on gun powder and tiny splinters of wood, but somehow she managed to hold in her cough. I felt her tears float across my cheeks, but I kept my eyes closed. Outside, the military trucks roared up and down the narrow spaces between the shanties. It was different from the s…
The Farming of Bones
Create Dangerously
Focuses on art and exile, examining what it means to be an immigrant artist from a country in crisis. This title tells the stories of artists, including the author, who create despite, or because of, the horrors that drove them from their homelands and that continue to haunt them
Night Talkers
Voices from Hispaniola
Voices from HispaniolaA Meridians Roundtable with Edwidge Danticat, Loida Maritza Pérez, Myriam J. A. Chancy, and Nelly Rosario Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Special Section. Art: From Silk Scarf, painted in the village of Matenwa, Lagonav, Haiti, by the Atis Fanm Matenwa/Women Artists of Matenwa Project [End Page 68] In October 2003, Meridians hosted its first Caribbean Women Writers Series, Voices from Hispaniola: Haiti a…
Tatiana, Mon Amour
Tatiana called. Drew whispered into the phone in Portuguese. As he buried his fingers in his bristly sable hair, he looked at the floor and at the carnival posters on his living room walls, but he never looked at me
Roundtable
Research Article| September 01 2005 Roundtable: Writing, History, and Revolution Dany Laferrière; Dany Laferrière Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Louis-Philippe Dalembert; Louis-Philippe Dalembert Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Edwidge Danticat; Edwidge Danticat Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Évelyne Trouillot; Évelyne Trouillot Search for other works by this autho…
Elsie
Elsie Edwidge Danticat (bio) Fleur was with her live-in "pulmonary fibrosis" when her ex-husband called to inform her that his girlfriend, Elsie, had been kidnapped in Port-au-Prince. Fleur had just fed Tiggs, the fibrosis patient, when her cell phone rang, spoon after spoon of heavily creamed spinach, which was meant to be digested easily while packing on calories. Tiggs was lying back in bed, his head carefully propped on two firm pillows, his …
An Interview with Edwidge Danticat
An Interview with Edwidge Danticat Michael S. Collins (bio) and Edwidge Danticat (bio) This interview was conducted via telephone on May 30, 2007, between College Station, Texas, and Miami, Florida. COLLINS: Dr. Rowell told me that when you received the Afro-Mexican issue, you were so struck and moved by it that you sent a short story to Callaloo, as a result. I'm just wondering, what struck you so about the issue? DANTICAT: I just loved it. I th…
Dyasporic Appetites and Longings
Dyasporic Appetites and Longings An Interview with Edwidge Danticat Nancy Raquel Mirabal . . . every meal is a reminder that we're not home. —Edwidge Danticat With a few words the author Edwidge Danticat captures the complicated and multiple connections among food, memory, and home. Food is home, regardless of whether we are there or not. It travels with us as seamlessly as does language, personal histories, and the faded photographs of the house…
Miras
Miras Edwidge Danticat (bio) I felt you reaching out to me one night. Or was it day? To stroke me just where time led you. It's still too hard for me to reach back, cup myself to fill your hand. God bless the resurrection that is this breath. But it does not give us a longer moment together. For we are walking in different directions. Our nine steps to eternity. Write me something in one of those tongues yet to be heard. They say there will be no…
Postscript
Postscript Edwidge Danticat (bio) my father is dyingno, not bed-boundyes, he still drives his cabnamed for wanderers, nomads, gypsiesmy faith has diminishedin modern herbsand ancient medicineas he shrinkswith each gluey breathi wish we could trade placesbut were i in his steadhe'd want to change with meso is this our faustian bargainwith his godsfor the pack a daythe pint a weekand all maleficent foodsdoes this meani never have to die? [End Page …
Trimester
Trimester Edwidge Danticat (bio) i miss the way a shot of klerenimmediately makes mewant to make wildpassionate nasty lovethe way chocolate calls to mindthe gentlest traits of lovers now despisedthe weight of a single hand on my hindmostas I read by the feeble lightof heated kerosenedrawing to us the one single flyin the entire house [End Page 411] Edwidge Danticat Edwidge Danticat, who was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is author of six books of…
In the Old Days
In the Old Days Edwidge Danticat (bio) The call came on a Friday evening as I was lying in bed, grading student essays. “My husband,” the sniffling woman on the other end of the line said, “is dying and it seems that—” She paused and it sounded as though she was swallowing more air than she wanted to. “And it seems that his final wish is to spend a few minutes with you.” Once these words were out of the way, the woman’s voice grew a tad more firm…
Fault Lines
On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, killing more than a quarter-million people and leaving another two million Haitians homeless. This book is a searing account of the first year after the earthquake. It explores how strong communities and an age-old gift culture have helped Haitians survive in the wake of an unimaginable disaster, one that only compounded the preexisting social and economic distress of their society. Th…
Fault Lines
Ultimately a tale of hope, Fault Lines will give readers a new understanding of daily life, structural challenges, and collective dreams in one of the world's most complex countries
Walking on Fire
Walking on Fire: Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance, edited by Beverly Bell and introduced by Edwidge Danticat, amplifies the voices of Haitian women as they navigate the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake. Through poignant narratives, poems, and testimonies, the book reveals the strength, resilience, and resistance of these women in the face of profound loss, displacement, and ongoing struggles. It explores themes of co…
Poetry of Haitian Independence
All Geography Is Within Me
Following the performances of two Haitian-inspired dances at the 2018 festival, Danticat delivered the following keynote to the audience of several hundred in attendance
Crossing Another Mangrove
I first met Maryse Condé (1934–2024) soon after Breath, Eyes, Memory, my first novel, was published in 1994. We were on a panel at a women writers’ conference at a place I no longer remember, with
The Dangerous Job of Edwidge Danticat
History (16 works) · Art (11 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (10 works) · Art history (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Haiti (4 works) · Miami (4 works)