American · b. 1969
Edwidge Danticat writes about Haiti and its diaspora with lyric intensity. Her story collection "Krik? Krak!" was a National Book Award finalist; her memoir "Brother, I'm Dying" won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Haitian-American author preserves stories of violence, migration, and survival that might otherwise be lost. Danticat's prose moves between English and Creole, between Port-au-Prince and New York, between the living and the dead.