Montgomery County Public Libraries ‘Contemporary Conversations’ Series Hosts Dialogue with Haitian-American Writers Edwidge Danticat and Katia D. Ulysse

For Immediate Release: Thursday, August 27, 2020

Haitian-American writers Edwidge Danticat and Katia D. Ulysse will participate in Montgomery County Public Libraries’ Virtual Contemporary Conversations series on Sept. 12 at 7 p.m. Acclaimed authors Danticat and Ulysse will discuss topics including diasporic literature, the writing craft, the importance of people of color represented in literature and immigration/deportation.

Award winning Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection: Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The Farming of Bones; The Dew Breaker; Create Dangerously; Claire of the Sea Ligh;, and Everything Inside.  Her memoir, Brother, I'm Dying, was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award and a 2008 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography.  

Danticat is a 2009 MacArthur fellow, a 2018 Ford Foundation “The Art of Change” fellow, and the winner of the 2018 Neustadt International Prize and the 2019 St. Louis Literary Award. 

Katia D. Ulysse is a fiction writer whose short stories, essays, and pushcart-nominated poetry have appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals. Her critically acclaimed collection of short stories, Drifting, portrays the real-life issues that plague immigrant families in the United States. Her novel Mouths Don’t Speak centers around the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010. Ulysse is an educator and advocate of immigrant families in the Baltimore area.

Friends of the Library, Montgomery County, Inc. co-sponsors Contemporary Conversations, which is a community forum to talk about cultural and current issues with experienced authors and journalists and to engage in enriching conversations.

Register for this free event on the registration website. For questions, or more information email [email protected].

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