“Women In Haiti: Strength in Spirit & Culture,” Interview with “Bread & Roses,” hosted by Carolle Scholl, Kboo.fm (Portland Oregon) can be accessed here:

http://kboo.fm/node/19571 (downloadable file)

It can also be accessed at:
www.kboo.fm/breadandroses/

Description: Haitian-Canadian author Myriam Chancy clarifies the richness and spirit of Haiti, especially that of women. “There’s great strength one can take from these women…Our history tells us it is possible to survive, to have a will, despite how Haiti is portrayed. Our culture, our spirit gives us no choice. We have to endure and that’s the heart of Haiti.” Also: poetry and music with Lenelle Moise and Emeline Michel.

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** If you purchase The Loneliness of Angels (available April 1/2010 in the US/Canada via IPG with Peepal Tree Press, Leeds/UK) or The Scorpion’s Claw (Peepal Tree Press 2005), please note that the author will be donating 100 % of her royalties to Haiti relief efforts for the next two years. **

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Forthcoming Appearances: (Please check back for updated information)

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

Invited Writer, Miami Book Fair International, Miami, FL, Nov. 21-22, 2010.

Invited Speaker & Literary Reading, University of Oregon, April 14-15, 2011.

JUST PUBLISHED :

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

FORTHCOMING BOOKS :

* From Sugar to Revolution: Women’s Visions of Haiti, Cuba and the Dominican Republic (Academic), Wilfred Laurier U. Press (Waterloo, Canada), forthcoming 2011.

RECENT ESSAYS in print:

* “‘Race’ Travels in a Post-Genocidal Age: Witnessing and (Re)Counting Rwanda » Cincinnati Romance Review 27 (2008): 1-15.

* “Subversive Sexualities: Revolutionizing Gendered Identities” Frontiers Vol. 29., No. 1 (2008): 51-75.

* “Dancing Words: Illness & the Writing Process” (Memoir Essay) (w/ 12 original photographs by the author, incl. cover) Calabash Vol. 5. No. 1 (Summer/Fall 2008; on-line: http://www.nyu.edu/calabash/)

RECENT INVITED READINGS & ADDRESSES:

*Literary Reading, “Celebrating Resistance, Making Change” with Martin Espada, Lenelle Moise, Patrick Sylvain and Djola Branner.  Food for Thought Bookstore, Amherst, Massachusetts. Feb. 5/10 $12-25 sliding scale.

*Interview & Reading from LOA, Feb. 19/10, Bread and Roses Collective, KBOO 90/7-FM, with Carole Scholl (host), should be streaming live at 9 pm EST (6 Pacific) at www.kboo.fm/breadandroses/ ; please check site for archive or here later for further informatin

*Literary Reading, “Haiti Alive: A Fundraiser,” with Lenelle Moise, Baoku and the Image Afro-Beat Band, Mike Helm, Janet Pressley, Regina M. Sewell, Kristina Moore, Dee Steele, Tracy Walker, and others.  Sponsored by Restavek Foundation/UC Great Hall, February 27/10, 7-10.

*Invited Speaker, “Hearing Our Mothers: Safeguarding Haitian Women’s Self-Representation & Practices of Survival in Visual/Virtual Archives,” Beyond Silence : Meaning & Memory in the Noise of Haiti’s Present Colloquium (Keynote V. Y. Mudimbe), Bard College, NY, NY, March 12, 2010.  Sponsor: Human Rights Project

*Keynote Address, ““Floating Islands: Spectatorship and the Body Politic in the Traveling Subjectivities of John Edgar Wideman & Edwidge Danticat,”  Graduate Caribbean Lit. Conference, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras/Mayaguez, March 15-17, 2010

*Campus Address, “Telling Tales: History & the Mnemonics of Haitian Women’s (Spiritual) Survival,” (incl. reading from L.O.A.), Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, March 24, 2010

*Invited Speaker, “Desecrated Bodies/Phantom Limbs: Post-Traumatic Reconstructions of Corporeality in Haiti/Rwanda,” French Cultures of Embodiment Conference, Center for Body, Mind & Culture, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, March 25-27, 2010

*Guest Speaker, “The Mnemonics and Politics of Haitian women’s historical representation and contemporary (spiritual) survival,” (includes reading from L.O.A.), Gold Room of the Student Center of Brooklyn College, 12:15-1:30 pm, April 8 (contact Africana Studies Dept. for more information).

*Keynote Address, “‘Harvesting’ Port-au-Prince, Haiti:  Zora Neale Hurston’s Literary (Dis)Articulation of Being,” College Language Association, Brooklyn Marriott, Brooklyn, NY, April 9, 8:30 pm

*Address & Literary Reading, LOA, University of Texas, El Paso, April 15-17, 2010

*Chair, Literary Reading, LOA, & Haiti Forum Roundtable, Association of Caribbean Women Writers & Scholars, Lousiana State University, Baton Rouge, La, April 19-25, 2010