Born in Haiti in 1969, Edwidge Danticat immigrated to the United States when she was twelve. She received her BA from Barnard College and her MFA from Brown University, where her thesis project became her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994); it was an Oprah Winfrey Book Club selection in 1998. Her other fiction includes Krik? Krak! (1995), The Farming of Bones (1998), and The Dew Breaker (2004). In her work, Danticat often explores themes of cultural dislocation from the perspective of immigrants of different generations.

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