I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.

I was able to not fold and go in a corner because I had my writing as therapy, but also as my tool for struggle.

When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done!

I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to

There [Haiti] were also leaders like Jean-Jacques Dessalines, whose motto was, "Cut their heads off, burn their houses."

The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is.

I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm sure, like the time of illuminated manuscripts.