Edwidge Danticat is a Haitian American novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, was published in 1994 and became an Oprah's Book Club selection. Danticat has since written or edited several books and has been the recipient of many awards and honors. Her work often explores themes of national identity, mother-daughter relationships, and diasporic politics.

In 2023, she was named the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities in the African American and African Diaspora Studies department at Columbia University.

Edwidge Danticat is the author of several notable works, including Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist, and The Farming of Bones. She is also recognized for her editor roles in collections like The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States, and Best American Essays 2011.

Her memoir, Brother, I'm Dying, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography in 2008. Danticat is a 2009 MacArthur Fellow and has received numerous other accolades, including the 2018 Neustadt International Prize and the 2020 Vilcek Prize for Literature.

Her recent awards include the 2023 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. She teaches at Columbia University.