Myriam J. A. Chancy biography

Myriam J. A. Chancy Biography

Myriam J. A. Chancy (1970-), Guggenheim Fellow & HBA Chair of the Humanities at Scripps College, is a Haitian-Canadian/American writer born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and subsequently raised there and in Canada. After obtaining her BA in English/Philosophy from the University of Manitoba and her MA in English Literature from Dalhousie University, she completed her Ph. D. in English at the University of Iowa (1994).

Chancy's first book, Spirit of Haiti, garnered a shortlisting for Best First Book, Canada/Caribbean region category, of the Commonwealth Prize in 2004. Her second novel, The Scorpion's Claw was released to critical praise, and her third novel, The Loneliness of Angels, was awarded the 2011 Guyana Prize in Literature Caribbean Award for Best Fiction, and was shortlisted in the fiction category for the 2011 OCM Bocas Prize in Caribbean Literature.

Dr. Chancy is currently Hartley Burr Alexander Chair of the Humanities at Scripps College of the Claremont Colleges.

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