Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti and moved to the United States when she was twelve. She is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; and The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner. She is also the editor of The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States and The Beacon Best of 2000: Great Writing by Men and Women of All Colors and Cultures. Danticat earned a degree in French Literature from Barnard College, where she won the 1995 Woman of Achievement Award, and later an MFA from Brown University. She lives in Miami with her husband and daughters.
Books
Untwine
2015
We're Alone
Essays
2024
Brother, I'm Dying
2007
Children of the Sea
1995
Everything Inside
2019
Eight Days
A Story of Haiti
2010
Create Dangerously
The Immigrant Artist at Work
2010
The Art of Death
Writing the Final Story
2017
My Mommy Medicine
2019
Haiti Noir 2
The Classics
2013
The Butterfly's Way
Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States
1997
Behind the Mountains
2002
Anacaona
2005
Krik? Krak!
1996
Mama's Nightingale
A Story of Immigration and Separation
2015
The Farming of Bones
1998
The Dew Breaker
2004
After the Dance
A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti
2002
Small Odysseys
Selected Shorts Presents 35 New Stories
2022
Breath, Eyes, Memory
1994
Water Child
2000
The Beacon Best of 2000
2000
Seven
2001
Claire of the Sea Light
2013
