Marilene Phipps-Kettlewell
Painter, poet, and short
story writer Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell was born and grew up in
Haiti. She has held fellowships at the Guggenheim Foundation, the Bunting
Institute, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American
Research, and the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University.
In 1993, she won the Grolier prize for poetry. Her collection Crossroads and Unholy Water won the 1999
Crab Orchard Poetry Prize. Her short fiction has been published in Callaloo, the Crab Orchard
Review, and the New Arcadia Review as
well as The Best American Short Stories
2003.
Photo credit: Robert Phipps-Kettlewell