Marilène Phipps held fellowships at the Guggenheim Foundation, Harvard’s Bunting Institute, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute and the Center for the Study of World Religions. Her collection, The Company of Heaven: Stories from Haiti, won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. Her poetry won the 1993 Grolier poetry prize, and her collection, Crossroads and Unholy Water won the Crab Orchard Poetry Prize. She has contributed to American anthologies and collections such as The Best American Short Stories; Haiti Noir; The Classics; The Beacon Best; Ploughshares; River Styx; Callaloo; and Harvard Divinity Bulletin, and she edited Jack Kerouac Collected Poems for The Library of America. Phipps is the recipient of the NAACP’s Award of Excellence for outstanding commitment in advancing the culture and causes for communities of color.
