Edwidge Danticat

EDWIDGE DANTICAT was born in Haiti and moved to the United States when she was 12. She is the editor of Haiti Noir and Haiti Noir 2: The Classics, and the author of Breath, Eyes, Memory (an Oprah’s Book Club selection), Krik? Krak!, and The Dew Breaker, among other books for adults. Her children’s picture books include Eight Days: A Story of Haiti; Mama’s Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation; The Last Mapou; My Mommy Medicine; and Watch Out for Falling Iguanas. A MacArthur fellow, Danticat currently teaches at Columbia University.