MYRIAM J. A. CHANCY is a Haitian Canadian/American writer and scholar born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised there and in Quebec City and Winnipeg in Canada. She is the author of Village Weavers (Tin House Books). Her debut novel What Storm, What Thunder, was awarded an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Her past novels include The Loneliness of Angels, winner of the Guyana Prize for Literature Caribbean Award; The Scorpion’s Claw; and Spirit of Haiti, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize. She is also the author of five academic works, including Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women and Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters. Chancy is a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
