VaccineA wind instrument made from bamboo.
VèvèA drawing depicting a divinity.
ZakaThe divinity of the earth, the gardens, and the peasants.
YANICK LAHENS, considered one of Haiti’s most prominent authors, was born in Port-au-Prince. She moved to France where she attended university before returning to Haiti to teach literature at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) and Université d’Etat d’Haïti (UEH), in addition to working at the Haitian Ministry of Culture. In 1998 she became the executive director of UNESCO’s National Committee for “Route de l’Esclavage” (“Road to Slavery”), a project focused on the effects of slavery in Haitian society. She is currently an editor with Editions Henri Deschamps, a board member on the Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones (International Council of Francophone Studies), and is a founding member of the Haitian Writers Union. Known for her vivid portrayals of life in Haiti, Lahens is the author of a collection of critical essays and articles for Caribbean publications, including Chemins critiques, Cultura, and Boutures. She has published three collections of short stories and several award-winning novels. She was awarded the 2014 Prix Femina for Moonbath, and that same year was named Officier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Embassy in Haiti in recognition for her work in promoting French culture and literature throughout the world.
EMILY GOGOLAK is a journalist and translator from the French. She studied French Philosophy and Literature at the Université de la Sorbonne in Paris and is a graduate of Brown University in Comparative Literature. A former editorial staffer at The New Yorker and a James Reston Reporting Fellow at the New York Times, she now lives in Texas. Her writing focuses on migration, gender, and the US-Mexico border, and has appeared in The New Yorker online, the New York Times, The Nation, and The Village Voice, and in the anthology City by City: Dispatches from the American Metropolis (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015). Her translations have been published in The Brooklyn Rail, Lana Turner Journal of Poetry and Opinion, and The Review of Contemporary Fiction. She won a 2015 French Voices Award for her translation of Yanick Lahens’ Moonbath.
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