About this picture: Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti.
While still in Haiti, Danticat wrote her first short story about a girl who was visited by a clan of women each night.
Edwidge Danticat moved to New York when she was twelve years old, to join her parents in a heavily Haitian American neighborhood.
As she was an immigrant teenager, Edwidge's accent and upbringing were a source of discomfort for her, thus she turned to literature for solace.
Two years later she published her first writing, in English, A Haitian-American Christmas: Cremace and Creole Theatre, in New Youth Connections, a citywide magazine written by teenagers.
She later wrote a story about her immigration experience for New Youth Connections, A New World Full of Strangers.
After graduating from Clara Barton High School in Brooklyn, New York, Danticat entered Barnard College in New York City. Initially she had intended on studying to become a teacher, but her love of writing won out and she received a BA in French literature.
In 1993, Edwidge Danticat earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Brown University.
Since completing her MFA, Edwidge Danticat has taught creative writing at both New York University and the University of Miami.
She has also worked with filmmakers Patricia Benoit and Jonathan Demme on projects on Haitian art and documentaries about Ha ti. Her short stories, e.g. New York Day Women, have appeared in over 25 periodicals and have been anthologized several times.[citation needed] Her work has been translated into numerous other languages including French, Korean, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish.
Edwidge Danticat is a strong advocate for issues affecting Haitians abroad and at home.
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