Edwidge Danticat Is an author of multiple books.  She was born in hati.  she earned a master in fine arts from Brown University.  She has two daughters and is married to fedo boyer.  She teaches creative writing at NYU and the University of Miami.  Her stories have been shown in over 25 periodicals.  She has work on films about hatian art and documentaries about hatie.  She has won multiple awards 1994 Fiction Award The Caribbean Writer 1995 Woman of Achievement Award, Barnard College.  These are just two of the many wards she has won.  

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