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Scripps Presents @Noon Series: Myriam Chancy
Join us for an exciting program with acclaimed author Myriam Chancy. Myriam J. A. Chancy is the author of the forthcoming novel Village Weavers (Tin House, April 2024). Her most recent novel, What Storm, What Thunder, was named a “Best Book of 2021” by NPR, Kirkus, Library Journal, the Boston Globe, and the Globe and Mail. What Storm, What Thunder was shortlisted for the CALIBA Golden Poppy Award and Aspen Words Literary Prize, longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize and the OCM Bocas Prize, and awarded an ABA from the Before Columbus Foundation. Her other work has won the 2011 Guyana Prize for Literature Caribbean Award and has been shortlisted or longlisted for numerous other prizes. Chancy is also the author of several academic monographs and her recent writings have appeared in Whetstone Magazine, Electric Literature, and Guernica. She is a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities at Scripps College in California. We look forward to seeing you there.