Marilène Phipps

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FELLOWSHIPS and AWARDS

  • NAACP Award of Excellence for outstanding commitment in advancing the culture and
    causes for communities of color; May 2018
  • Harvard University; Center for the Study of World Religions;
    Resident Senior Fellow; 1999-2000
  • Harvard University; W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research;
    Resident Fellow; 1999-2000
  • Guggenheim Fellowship; 1995
  • Radcliffe College and Harvard University; Bunting Institute fellow; 1992-93

WRITING AWARDS

  • Kirkus Reviews; The Best Books 2020; House of Fossils
  • International Book Awards; House of Fossils; Finalist; 2020NIEA—National Indie Excellence Awards; House of Fossils; finalist; 2020
  • INDIE Book Award; for memoir Unseen Worlds: Adventures at the Crossroads of Vodou Spirits and
     Latter-day Saints; May 2020
  • Glimmer Train Press Inc.; Honorable Mention award for, “The Law of the Land”;
    October competition, Family Matters; 2013
  • Iowa Short Fiction Award; University of Iowa Press; Winner
    for collection, The Company of Heaven: Stories from Haiti; 2010
  • University of Georgia Press; Flannery O’Connor Award
    Finalist for the short story collection, The House of Fossils; 2008
  • Glimmer Train Press Inc.; Very short fiction Award for The Tablecloth;
    Honorable Mention; Feb. 2009
  • The University of Iowa Press; Iowa Short Fiction awards
    Finalist for the short story collection, The House of Fossils; 2007
  • Tartt Award; University of West Alabama;
    Winner for the short story collection, The House of Fossils; 2007
  • Eastern Washington University Press; Spokane Prize;
    Semi-finalist for the short story collection, The House of Fossils; 2006
  • Best American Short Stories 2003; Walter Mosley Editor; 2003
  • Best American Short Stories 2001; listed in Distinguished Stories; 2001
  • Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry; Southern Illinois University Press;
    Winner for collection, Crossroads and Unholy Water; 2000
  • The Grolier poetry prize; 1st prize winner. Cambridge, MA; 1993
  • Academy of American Poets; Walt Whitman Prize;
    Finalist for collection, Crossroads and Unholy Water; 1997
  • Southern Illinois University Press; Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry;
    Semi-finalist for collection, Crossroads and Unholy Water; 1998
  • Sarabande Books; Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry;
    Finalist for collection, Crossroads and Unholy Water; 1998
  • Untenberg Poetry Center; “Discovery,” The Nation contest;
    Semi-finalist for collection, Crossroads and Unholy Water; 1998
  • Silverfish Review Press; Gerald Cable Book Award;
    Finalist for collection, Crossroads and Unholy Water; 1998
  • Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize;
    Semi-finalist for collection, Crossroads and Unholy Water; 1999
  • Glimmer Train Press Inc.; Very Short Fiction Award;
    Finalist for, Life Outside my Own; 2001

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS:

  • Find all of her books at the appropriate university presses or on Amazon.

  • Novel: HOUSE OF FOSSILS
    Calumet Editions: March 2020
    Find House of Fossils on Amazon at http://smarturl.it/FOStg.

  • Memoir: UNSEEN WORLDS: Adventures at the Crossroads of Vodou Spirits and Latter-day Saints
    Calumet Editions; July 2018

  • Short Stories: THE COMPANY OF HEAVEN: Stories from Haiti
    Iowa Short Fiction Award 2010.
    University of Iowa Press

  • Poetry: CROSSROADS AND UNHOLY WATER
    Crab Orchard Review Poetry Prize; Spring 2000
    Southern Illinois University Press

     

     

ANTHOLOGIES—FICTION/SHORT STORY

  • HAITI NOIR 2: THE CLASSICS  (“Land”)
    Akashic Press; 2014
  • SO SPOKE THE EARTH: A Haiti Anthology  (“From Haiti With Love”)
    Published by Women Writers of Haitian Descent, Inc. 2012
  • THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES (“Marie-Ange’s Ginen”)
    Walter Mosley, editor; 2003
  • THE BUTTERFLY WAY: Voices of Haïtian Descent in the United States
    Soho Press; edited by Edwidge Danticat and Laura Hruska;2000

ANTHOLOGIES—POETRY:

  • DOVE SONG: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry
    Peculiar Pages; May 2018
  • OTHERS WILL ENTER THE GATES: Poets in America on the émigré experience
    Black Lawrence Press; 2015
  • JACK KEROUAC COLLECTED POEMS, Editor
    Library of America; 2012
  • POETS FOR HAITI
    Yileen Press; 2010
  • NEW CARIBBEAN POETRY
    Carcanet Press Ltd; England; 2007
  • BRASSAGE
    UC Santa Barbara and Multicultural Women’s Presence, Inc.; 2005
  • THE BEACON BEST OF 1999
    Beacon Press; 1999
  • CREATIVE WRITING BY WOMEN AND MEN OF ALL COLORS
    Edited by Ntozake Shang; Fall 1999
  • SISTERS OF CALIBAN: Poets of the Caribbean
    Azul Editions; edited by M.J. Fenwick;1996
  • GROLIER POETRY PRIZE
    Ellen La Forge Memorial Poetry Foundation Inc.; L Solano Editor; Cambridge MA 1993

LITERARY MAGAZINES and REVIEWS—FICTION/SHORT STORY

  • ALBAWKATA REVIEW  (“Marie-Ange’s Ginen”)
    translated into Arabic by Hala Salah Eldin Hussein; Egypt; 2009
  • CALLALOO  (“Dame Marie”)
    John Hopkins University Press, ISSN 0161-2494, Volume 30, #3; Spring 2007
  • CONJONCTION  (“Dame Marie”)
    Haiti; 2005
  • NEW ARCADIA REVIEW  (“The Chapel”)
    Boston College; 2004
  • CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW Vol. 8, #2  (“Meat”)
    2003
  • CALLALOO  (“Marie-Ange’s Ginen”)
    John Hopkins University Press, ISSN 0161-2492; Fall 2002
  • TRANSITION (“Down by the River”)
    December 2000

LITERARY MAGAZINES and REVIEWS—POETRY

  • IBBETSON STREET  #35;
    Spring-summer 2015
  • HARVARD DIVINITY BULLETIN
    Special poetry Series; Winter-Spring 2012
  • IBBETSON STREET  #31
    Spring-summer 2012
  • THE CARIBBEAN WRITER; volume 25; silver anniversary;
    interview and poetry; 2011
  • IBBETSON STREET  #30
    Fall-Winter 2011
  • MARGINALES #267
    Bi-lingual Edition (French-English); Belgium; Fall 2007
  • NEW ARCADIA REVIEW
    Boston College; Spring 2005
  • CAHIERS ELECTRONIQUES DE L’IMMAGINAIRE Cahiers #3
    Belgium; 2005
  • RIVER STYX
    April 1998
  • CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW Vol 2 No 2
    Southern Illinois University Press; Spring 1997
  • PLOUGHSHARES
    Spring 1997
  • CALLALOO, Volume 18, Number 2
    John Hopkins University Press; 1995
  • COMPOST 5
    Winter 1994
  • RIVER STYX
    April 1998

    REVIEWS and WRITTEN INTERVIEWS

    • Haitian Times; https://haitiantimes.com/2022/11/22/welcome-to-the-twin-cities-where-haitian-artists-and-writers-thrive/ ; November 2022

    • Île en Île ; by Joëlle Vitiello ; 2021 ; http://ile-en-ile.org/phipps/

    • Pluton Magazine; review for House of Fossils; May 2021

      [Book Review]: House of Fossils by Marilène Phipps – Pluton Magazine (pluton-magazine.com)

    • Kirkus Review; Blue Star; 2020

    • Jamaica Observer. Bookend; May 10, 2020; www.jamaicaobserver.com twitter.com/jamaicaobserver THE SUNDAY OBSERVER
      May 10, 2020 P 51
    • World Literature Today; Interview with Renee Shea; March 2019
      “Suffering Memory”: The Unseen Worlds of Marilène Phipps
    • Interview with Segullah. January 2019
    • Penn Gazette; PA; November 2018
    • Boston Globe, Sunday issue; review for Unseen Worlds: Adventures at the Crossroads of Vodou Spirits and Latter-day Saints by Nina MacLaughlin;July 22nd 2018
    • Lowdown; Twin Cities Area; MN; July 2018
    • Lowdown; Twin-Cities Area; MN; March 2016
    • Journal of Haitian Studies; review for The Company of Heaven; volume 17:2; 2012
    • How the Sun Illuminates Under cover of Darkness; Arts and Religion of Haiti; LeGrace
      Benson; Ian Randle Publishers; Kingston Jamaica; 2011-12
    • Kirkus Review; Starred review; Sept. 2010
    • Publishers Weekly; review for The Company of Heaven: Stories from Haiti; Sept. 2010
    • Boston Globe Books, Sunday issue; interview; Sept. 2010
    • Poets and Writers; review for The Company of Heaven; Winter 2010
    • Pleiades; Vol 22#2; review by Jerry Harp; 2002
    • Women in the Arts; review essay by Renee Shea; Spring 2002
    • Journal of Haitian Studies, vol. 7 #2; review by Florence Bellande-Robertson; 2001
    • Porter Gulch Literary Review; review by Janet Thalen; Summer 2001
    • Bay State Banner; Boston; April 26th 2001
    • The Haitian Times; NY; March-April 2001
    • Ma Comè; interview by Renee Shea; 2001
    • Women writers of Haitian Descent, Vol 1 Issue 3; 2001
    • Haitian Painters; Editions Cercle d’Art; edited by Gerald Alexis; France; 2000
    • Amazon.com; review of Crossroad and Unholy Water by Denise Duhamel; July 2000
    • www.webdelsol.com; review by Donna Johnson; June 2000
    • http://windowson haiti.com; review by Carol Coates; July 2000
    • corbett@netcom; review by Carol Coates; June 2000
    • David Rockerfeller Center for Latin Amer. Studies Newsletter, by E. Travieso; 2000
    • The NashusTelegraph; NH; Jan 16th, 2000
    • Portsmouth Herald; NH; Jan. 23rd, 2000
    • The New Hampshire; NH; Jan.28th, 2000
    • Spotlight; NH; Jan. 20th, 2000
    • The Blade; Toledo, OH; Oct. 15th 1999
    • Boston Globe; MA; Nov. 5th 1998
    • Art Nexus; Jan. 1996
    • Miami Herald; FLA; Sept. 3rd, 1995
    • International Quarterly, Vol. 1, #4; Faces of the Americas
    • Miami Herald; FLA; July 7th 1995
    • New Times; Miami, FLA; July 7th 1995
    • Miami Herald; FLA; June 12th 1995
    • The Boston Herald; MA; March 10th 1995
    • International Quarterly; Face of the Americas; Fall 1994
    • Aspen Times; CO; Aug. 13th and 14th 1994
    • Aspen Magazine; CO; Midsummer 1994
    • The Aspen Catalogue; Summer 1994
    • Maine Time; June 24th 1994
    • Bangor Daily News; ME;June 16th 1994
    • The Bar Harbor Times; ME; June 9th 1994
    • Boston Globe; MA; Aug. 15th 1993
    • Art New England; Aug. 1993
    • SIF Newsletter; Boston, MA; Fall 1993
    • Aspen Magazine; CO; Summer 1993
    • The Republican Journal; Belfast, ME; July 15th 1993
    • The Camden Herald; Camden, ME; June 24th 1993
    • The Courier Gazette; Rockland, ME; June 24th 1993
    • Maine Sunday Telegram; ME; June 27th 1993
    • Boston Phoenix; Boston; May 1993
    • Boston Globe; Boston; May 1993
    • Aspen Magazine; CO; Midsummer 1993
    • Encyclopaedia de Arte Latino Americano Del Ciglo XX; Spain 1992
    • Aspen Magazine; CO; Midsummer 1992
    • The Aspen Times; CO; July 1992
    • Cultura; Haiti 1992
    • The Austin Chronicle; TX; Nov. 20th 1992
    • Time Out; Austin; TX; Oct. 17th 1992
    • Fine Arts; Austin, TX; Oct. 1992
    • The Aspen Times; CO; July 1991
    • Aspen Daily News; CO; July 1991
    • Gallery News; Joanne Lyon gallery; Aspen, CO; July 1991
    • The Aspen Catalogue; CO; Summer 1991
    • Modern Haitian Masters; Gallery Malraux; Los Angeles, CA; 1990
    • The Aspen Times; CO; July 1990
    • Gallery News; Joanne Lyon Gallery; Aspen, CO; July 1990
    • 8th International Mini-Print; catalog; Cadaques, Spain; 1998
    • 7th International Mini-Print; catalog. Cadaques, Spain, 1987
    • Haitian Art: The Legend and Legacy of the Naive Tradition; L.G. Hoffman; 1985
    • About Voodoo; Musee du Pantheon National Haitien; catalog; 1984
    • When Painters Draw; Musée d’Art Haitien; catalog; 1984
    • Le Nouvelliste,;Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Jan. 1984
    • Le Nouvelliste; Port-au-Prince; Dec. 1983
    • News of Haiti, Vol 14, No 146; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; 1983
    • Le nouvelliste; “Marilene Phipps on l’Apprentissage de la Maturite”; Haiti; Jan. 1982
    • Le Nouvelliste; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Oct. 20th 1982
    • Le Nouvelliste; “Marilene Phipps, Peintre au Talent Vrai”; Haiti; Dec 1981
    • Le Nouvelliste; “Marilene Phipps vue par Roger Gaillard”; Haiti, Dec 1981

    PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND READINGS

    • Barnes and Noble; Calhoun Village, St Paul, MN; December 14th, 2018
    • Valley Booksellers, Stillwater, MN; December 1st, 2018
    • Miami Book Fair, Panel reading with Edwidge Danticat; Nov 18, 2018
    • Schubert Club; Saint Paul MN; 2016
    • Winona State University, MN; Sept 21st, 2015
    • First Parish, Concord, MA; May 21st, 2014
    • Watertown Public Library; MA; May 12th, 2012
    • U. of Mass, Lowell, MA; March 10th, 2012
    • U. of Michigan; lecture, “Haiti’s Legacy; Tragedy and Beauty”; Ann Arbor; Feb. 2012
    • PEN New England; conversation with Christopher Lydon; Cambridge, MA; Feb 2012
    • Cambridge Center for Adult Education; Keynote address Writers Conference; Oct 2011
    • Mass Poetry Festival; Salem, MA; May 2011
    • Mass Bay College; Wellesley, MA; April 13th, 2011
    • Brookline Public Library, MA; April 5th, 2011
    • Cambridge Public Library, MA; April 3rd, 2011
    • University of Missouri, Columbia; Feb. 2011
    • Harvard University; Longfellow Hall; “Poets for Haiti”; Cambridge, MA; Feb. 2010
    • Jack Kerouac Festival; Lowell, MA; Oct. 2010
    • Harvard Coop bookstore; Cambridge, MA; Oct. 2010
    • Wellesley Booksmith; Wellesley, MA; Oct. 2010
    • Porter Square Books; Cambridge, MA; Dec. 2010
    • Barnes and Noble; Burlington, MA; Nov. 2010
    • Christ Church; Cambridge, MA; Feb. 2010
    • Massachusetts Poetry Festival; Lowell, MA; Oct.  2009
    • Fireside Poetry Reading Series; Cambridge, M; Oct. 2009
    • Central Square Theater; Poet Populist reading; Cambridge, MA; April 2009
    • Porter Square Bookstore; Cambridge Open Studios; Cambridge, MA; April 2009
    • Cambridge Arts Council; Cambridge, MA; Sept. 2009
    • Somerville Arts Council; Arts Union; Sept. 2009
    • Sala; San Miguel Allende; Mexico; July 2006
    • TMCC; Reno, Nevada; March 2006
    • Borders Bookstore; Boston, MA; May 2006
    • International Festival of Literature; Berlin, Germany; Sept. 2004
    • N.Y.U.; New York, NY; March 2004
    • Montgomery College; Rockville, MD; March 2003
    • Montgomery College; Rockville, MD; Nov. 2002
    • Montgomery College; Germantown, MD; Nov.  2002
    • M.I.T.; Cambridge, MA; April 2002
    • National Museum of Women in the Arts; Washington DC; April 2002
    • Brooklyn Public Library; New York, NY; March 2001
    • Emerson College; Boston, MA; 2001
    • St. Michael’s College; H.S.A.; Burlington, VT; 2001
    • Detroit Institute of Art; Detroit, MI. Jan 2000
    • University of Southern Illinois; ILL; April 2000
    • St Michael’s College; Burlington, VT; March 2000
    • Harvard University; Center for the Study of World Religions; MA; May 2000
    • University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, MI; Jan 2000
    • Harvard University; W.E.B. Du Bois Institute; Cambridge, MA; 2000
    • Harvard University; Center for the Study of World Religions; MA; March 2000
    • University of New Hampshire; Durham, NH; 2000
    • Brooklyn College; New York, NY; 2000
    • University of New Hampshire; Dartmouth, NH; Oct 1999
    • University of Ohio; Bowling Green, OH; Oct. 1999
    • SSAC; Cohasset, MA; March 1999
    • University of Wisconsin; Oshkosh, WI; Feb. 1999
    • University of California; Santa Barbara, CA; Jan. 1999
    • University of Ohio; Bowling Green, OH; March 1999
    • Center for Caribbean Arts and Culture; Detroit, MI; March 1999
    • Harvard University, Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; MA; Oct. 1998
    • Tufts University; Medford, MA; July 1998
    • Wellesley College; “Women and Spirituality”; Wellesley, MA; April 1998
    • Massachusetts College of Arts; Boston, MA; Nov. 1997
    • Boston Center for the Arts; Boston, MA; Oct. 1997
    • Massachusetts College of Arts; Boston, MA; Sept. 1996
    • Jamaica Plains Art Center; Boston, MA; Sept. 1996
    • Chapter and Verse reading series; Boston, MA; Jan. 1996
    • Firehouse Cultural Center; Boston, MA; March 1995
    • Harvard University, Bunting Institute; Cambridge, MA; Nov. 1994
    • Harvard University; Grolier Series at Adams House; Cambridge, MA; April 1994
    • Boston University; Boston, MA; May 1994
    • College of the Atlantic; Bar Harbor, ME; June 1994
    • University of Massachusetts at Boston; H.S.A.; Boston, MA; Oct. 1993
    • Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College; Cambridge, MA; 1993
    • Art Institute of Boston; Boston, MA; 1993
    • Radcliffe College; Women’s Caucus for the Arts; Bunting Ins.; Cambridge, MA; 1992

    TELEVISION and RADIO INTERVIEWS

    • KFAI; Radio interview on “Right On Audio”; July 31st 2018
    • KFAI; Radio interview; May 2018
    • The Smoki and Dick Show; Literati Art Scene; World Wide Channels # 23, 10, 8, 36,
      and 3; Feb, Oct. 2010
    • WGBH; Radio Open Source; interview with Chris Lydon, “Whose Words These Are”
      (23); Radio Open source>Blog Archive>Whose Words These Are 23; March 17th 2010
    • WBUR/NPR; “Here and Now” with Robin Young; March 2010
    • The Smoki and Dick Show; Literati Art Scene; World Wide Channels; 2006
    • WGBH; Channel 4; Boston Arts; interview by John Baynard; Nov. 1999
    • BNN; Channel 3; “Boston Live”; interview by J.C. Valmé; Dec. 1999
    • Tele-Haiti; “Emission Echo”; interview by Vario; Haiti; Dec. 1994
    • Tele-Haiti; interview by Gerald Alexis at the Mupanah; Haiti; 1985
    • Tele-Haiti; interview by Paul-Claude Gardere; Haiti; 1982
    • Tele-Haiti; interview by Gerald Alexis; Haiti; 1981

    TEACHING

    • Bentley University; Creative Writing—poetry and essays; Waltham 2012 to 2013
    • U. Mass Boston; Caribbean Literature; Boston 2011
    • Kenney School; Creole poetry; Dorchester; Boston 2011

    EDUCATION

    • Master of Fine Arts; University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA
    • Bachelor of Arts Studies; University of California; Berkeley, CA