Edwidge Danticat

EDWIDGE DANTICAT is the author of Breath, Eyes, Memory, Krik? Krak!, The Farming of Bones, The Dew Breaker, Anacaona, Golden Flower, Behind the Mountains, Eight Days, The Last Mapou, Mama’s Nightingale, Untwine, After the Dance, A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel and Brother, I’m Dying (Knopf). Danticat’s essays, The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story (Graywolf) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism 2017. Her children’s book My Mommy Medicine (Roaring Brook Press) was a Parents’ Choice Recommended Book. Danticat’s most recent collection of short stories, Everything Inside, was published by Knopf in August 2019. It won The Story Prize, The National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Fiction, and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. She is a 2009 MacArthur Fellow and winner of the 2018 Neustadt Prize for Literature.