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  <name><![CDATA[Myriam J.A. Chancy]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Myriam J. A. Chancy was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and was raised there and in Quebec City for the first four years of her life; subsequently, her family emigrated to Winnipeg, in the Prairies of Canada.  Her first language is &quot;French French,&quot; as the Martiniquans would say, and she learned English between the ages of 8-10.  She studied English Literature and Philosophy at the University of Manitoba where Evelyn J. Hinz was a shaping influence on her future trajectory as a writer, editor, and ultimately, as a professor of English.  She received her MA in English Literature from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia and won a coveted SSHRCC Ph. D. fellowship from the Government of Canada without having considered or applied to Ph. D. programs.  During this time, she published her first fiction and creative non-fiction in a journal called Proem (now defunct) dedicated to writers 25 years or under.  She ultimately decided to accept the SSHRCC award and attended the University of Iowa from 1990-1994 where she received her Ph. D. in English Literature with specialization in Caribbean Women's Literature.  

She published two academic texts, _Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile_ &amp; Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women in 1997; Searching was awarded an OAB Award from Choice, the journal of the American Library Association in 1999 and Framing Silence, the first comprehensive study of Haitian women's literature has been foundational in establishing the field.

In 2003, her first novel, _Spirit of Haiti_ was published in London, England; it was short listed for the Canada/Caribbean Region First Novel Award of the Commonwealth Writer's Prize in 2004 on a long list which included Ramabai Espinet and Margaret Atwood.

In 2005, her second novel _The Scorpion's Claw_ was published by Peepal Tree Press in Leeds, England; it enjoys some success and is taught in numerous schools in the US, the Caribbean and the UK.  It received the distinction of being selected to be placed, along with works by other contemporary Caribbean authors, in high school libraries across Guyana in 2007.]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Too many to count...but, I will say: de Ségur, de la Fontaine, Morisseau Leroy, Margaret Atwood, Alice Walker, Countee Cullen, Leonard Cohen (music), Raymond Carver, Chopin, Mozart, Bach, Sade (singer)...music of all genres...regular folks on the streets at home and while traveling....food....paternal step-grandmother, parents...friends....life....illness...grace...]]></influences>  <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>Port-au-Prince</hometown>  <born_at>03/18/1970</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Spirit of Haiti (City Colours series)]]></title>
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