Edwidge Danticat

Miami, FL – May 26, 2015 – YoungArts held their last YoungArts Salon of the season, in partnership with Miami Book Fair International, which featured a talk and reading with acclaimed Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat. 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, and Claire of the Sea Light. She is also the editor of The Butterflyâ™s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States, Best American Essays 2011, Haiti Noir and Haiti Noir 2. She  has written four books for young adults and children, Anacaona, Behind the Mountains, Eight Days, The Last Mapou, as well as a travel narrative, After the Dance. 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. She is a 2009 MacArthur fellow. This year, she will publish a picture book, Mama’s Nightingale, and a young adult novel, Untwine. The Salon was moderated by Carla Hill (1990 YoungArts Winner in Theater) and sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Carla Hill

Edwidge Danticat & Carla Hill

Marlon & Carla Hill

Edwidge Danticat & Carla Hill

Edwidge Danticat & Carla Hill

Aileen Ochoa, Corey Lewis, Maggie Steber, & Marlon Hill

Lee Cohen Hare, Danica Robinson, & Karyn Robinson

Barbara Cohen & Lee Cohen Hare

Robin Lawrie & Erin Clancy

Tom Austin & Debra Leibowitz

Mike Lozoff, Shelby Chodos, & Margery Berger

Kristina Martinez & Helen Kunde

Dejha Carrington & Amanda Fischer

Harmony Jackson & Yolande Clark-Jackson

Robin Lawrie & Erin Clancy

Kenyon & Emily Adams

Scott Shuffield & Scott Wadler

Barbara Ross & Linda Cohen

Stephanie Ansin & Celeste Fraser Delgado

Edwidge Danticat & Alex Vazquez