Writers at Queens, the Queens College Reading Series presents a reading by Edwidge Danticat with a Q&A facilitated by Nadia Misir.

The Annual Marjorie Hecht Watson Memorial Reading
In memory of Marjorie Hecht Watson (B.A. 1964) and in honor of Women’s History Month

Monday, March 10, 2025 • 7 pm
LeFrak Concert Hall
Join us on Zoom: bit.ly/3CoFZzn

Free and open to the public
The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing.

Edwidge Danticat is the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of 17 books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; the novels-in-stories The Dew Breaker, Claire of the Sea Light, and The Art of Death, a National Book Critics Circle finalist for Criticism. She has written seven books for children and young adults, a travel narrative, After the Dance, and a collection of essays, Create Dangerously. Her memoir, Brother, I’m Dying, was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award and a 2008 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography.

Danticat is a 2009 MacArthur Fellow, a 2018 Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow, a 2018 winner of
the Neustadt Prize, a 2019 winner of the Saint Louis Literary Award, a 2020 United States Artist Fellow, a 2020 winner of the Vilcek Prize, and a 2023 winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Her story collection, Everything Inside, was a 2020 winner of the Bocas Fiction Prize, The Story Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Prize. Her essay collection We’re Alone was published by Graywolf Press in Fall 2024.

This event is co-sponsored by the Kupferberg Center for the Arts and in honor of a donor: Edwidge Danticat.

For more information, contact series director Nicole Cooley at [email protected]
or visit the Writers at Queens webpage.