Education: B.A. University of Manitoba; M.A. Dalhousie University; Ph.D. University of Iowa

Research Interests: Caribbean Women's Literature, African Diaspora Studies, African American Literature (20th C.), Creative writing-Fiction, Postcolonial Theory, Feminist Theory

Books: The Scorpion's Claw (A Novel) Leeds, England: Peepal Tree Press, 2005; Spirit of Haiti. (A Novel) London, England: Mango Press, 2003; Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997; Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1997.

Representative Articles: "'No Giraffes in Haiti': Haitian Women and State Terror." in Écrire en pays assiégé-Haiti_Writing Under Siege, 2005; "Facing the Mountains: Dominican Suppression and the Haitian Imagination," Journal of Haitian Studies, 2003; "Diasporic Disconnections: Insurrection and Forgetfulness in Contemporary Haitian and Latin-Caribbean Women's Literature," in Beyond the Borders: American Literature and Post-Colonial Theory (2003). "Subversive Sexualities: Revolutionizing Gendered Identities" Frontiers (2008); "Fallen Angels" Excerpt from The Loneliness of Angels (A Novel) Small Axe 24 (2007); "Dahomé" (Poetry) Prairie Fire 28 (2007); "Angels" Excerpt from L.O.A. (A Novel) Il Tolemeo (2006).

Professional Service: Editor of Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism (2002-4). Vice President, Association of Caribbean Women Writers & Scholars (ACWWS), 2007-2009; Expert Panelist. Humanities Focus Grants. National Endowment for the Humanities. Washington, D.C., 2003.

Representative Awards & Honors: Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement (Meridians), Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CLEJ), 2004; Shortlisted, Commonwealth Prize, Best First Book Category (Spirit of Haiti), Canada/Caribbean Region, 2004; Camargo Foundation Fellowship, Cassis, France, Fall 2001; Martin Luther King, Jr., César Chàvez, Rosa Parks, Visiting; Professorship, University of Michigan, December 6, 2000; Outstanding Academic Book Award (OAB), 1997-1998, for Searching For Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile (Temple UP, 1997), from Choice, February 1999, American Library Association.

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