Painter, poet, and short story writer Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell was born and grew up in Haiti. Her collection The Company of Heaven: Stories from Haiti won the 2010 Iowa Short Fiction Award. She has held fellowships at the Guggenheim Foundation, the Bunting Institute, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, and the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University. She is a winner of the Grolier prize for poetry, and her collection Crossroads and Unholy Water won the Crab Orchard Poetry Prize. Her work has been published in Callaloo, the Crab Orchard Review, the New Arcadia Review, Ploughshares and The Best American Short Stories.
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