Myriam J. A. Chancy
Myriam J. A. Chancy | |
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Chancy at the 2024 Texas Book Festival. | |
| Born | 1970 (age 54–55) |
| Alma mater | University of Manitoba; Dalhousie University; University of Iowa |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Notable work | Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile (1997); Framing Silence (1997); The Loneliness of Angels (2010); Village Weavers (2024) |
| Awards | Guyana Prize for Literature (2011); OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature (2025) |
| Website | www |
Myriam J. A. Chancy (born 1970) is a Haitian-Canadian-American writer and a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. As of 2008, she is the Hartley Burr Alexander Chair of Humanities at Scripps College of the Claremont Consortium. As a writer, she focuses on Haitian culture, gender, class, sexuality, and Caribbean women's studies. Her novels have won several awards, including the Guyana Prize for Literature Caribbean Award and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.