** NEWS: The Loneliness of Angels is the 

Winner of the Guyana Prize for Literature Caribbean Award 2010, Best Book of Fiction, awarded in Georgetown, Guyana, Sept. 1, 2011 !!!!

L.O.A. was previously longlisted for the 2011 OCM Bocas Prize in Caribbean Literature & shortlisted in its fiction category in the Spring of 2011 **

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** 100% of Author’s royalties from The Loneliness of Angels (Peepal Tree Press 2010) and The Scorpion’s Claw (Peepal Tree Press 2005), will be donated to Haiti relief efforts until January 2012. **

Forthcoming Invited Talks & Appearances: (Please check back for updated information)

* Literary Reading, English, Women’s & International Studies, Wittenberg University, October 7, 2011.

* Invited Author, Book Signings, Books By the Bank, Public Library of Cincinnati, Duke Energy Center, 10-1 pm, October 22, 2011.

* Invited Speaker, MLA Division on Francophone Literature & Cultures Panel: “Haiti Studies: Current Debates and New Directions,” MLA Conference, Seattle, January 8, 2012.

* Invited Speaker, Black Migration Symposium, Vanderbilt & Fisk Universities, Nashville, TN, February 10-11, 2012.

* Writer-in-Residence, University of West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago, April 5-May 5, 2012.

* Writer-in-Residence, Union Institute & University, Cincinnati, OH, July 11-13, 2012.

JUST PUBLISHED :

* The Loneliness of Angels (A Novel) Leeds, England: Peepal Tree Press, 2010.

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS :

Book:

* From Sugar to Revolution: Women’s Visions of Haiti, Cuba and the Dominican Republic (Academic), Wilfrid Laurier U. Press (Waterloo, Canada), forthcoming 2012.

Essays, Fiction, Poetry, Etc.:

* “Floating Islands: Spectatorship and the Body Politic in the Traveling Subjectivities of John Edgar Wideman and Edwidge Danticat.” (Essay) Small Axe 36 (November 2011)

* “Under/Water” (Poem) In Pawol Fanm, Special Issue of Meridians (Fall 2011)

* Interview, Obsidian (Forthcoming Fall 2011)

* “The Aftermath” (Nonfiction Essay) Vandal Literary Journal 2:1 (Forthcoming Fall 2011)

* “Il Suono Dell’Acqua” (Fiction, Translation), Tr. Claudia Gargano.  Il Tolomeo (Venice, Italy), forthcoming Fall 2011.

* “Hearing Our Mothers: Safeguarding Haitian Women’s Representation & Practices of Survival.” (Abbreviated Essay) In Tectonic Shifts: Haiti Since the Earthquake, Eds. Mark Schuller & Pablo Morales. West Hartford: Kumarian Press, forthcoming January 2012.

* “Hearing Our Mothers: Safeguarding Haitian Women’s Self-Representation & Practices of Survival.” (Complete Essay) In Beyond Silence: Meaning & Memory in the Noise of Haiti’s Present.  Ed. Winter Schneider.  Miami: Caribbean Press, forthcoming 2012.

RECENT ESSAYS in print:

* “Desecrated Bodies/Phantom Limbs: Post-Traumatic Reconstructions of Corporeality in Haiti/Rwanda.” Atlantic Studies.  Vol. 8 No. 1 (March 2011): 109-123.

RECENT INVITED READINGS & ADDRESSES:

2011 Bartolomé de las Casas Lecture in Latin American Studies, “Submission or Omission: Haiti’s Challenge in Latin America,” Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies. Co-sponsored by UO College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Romance Languages, Latin American Studies, Department of Ethnic Studies, The Americas Steering Committee, Newman Center, the  Knight Law School, and the Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, April 14, 2011.

Creative Reading, Antioch College Winter Reading Series, February 6, 2011.

Invited Speaker/Seminar Leader, Haiti in Literature & Ideology, Comparative Literature Program & School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Faculty/Grad. Seminar, University of Maryland, Dec. 10, 2010.

Invited Speaker, American Studies Association, Presidential Plenary, San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 21-22, 2010.

Keynote Speaker, Haiti and the Americas: Histories, Cultures, Imaginations Conference, Florida Atlantic University, October 21-23, 2010.