Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
Author of 'stick No Bills'
Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw is Professor of French Literature and Creative Writing and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Education at the University of the West Indies. She has published two collections of short stories; Stick No Bills in 2020, and Four Taxis Facing North, published in 2007 and translated into Italian in 2010. Her first novel, Mrs. B, was published in 2014.
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Old Fire Station, NALIS
One on One with Edwidge Danticat
Haitian-American writer and 2024 OCM Bocas Prize chief judge Edwidge Danticat is one of the contemporary Caribbean’s most beloved authors, for her searing fiction and unsparing essays and memoirs. She speaks with Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw about the roots of her work, and if and how writing can bridge gaps of understanding and empathy.Haitian-American writer and 2024 OCM Bocas Prize chief judge Edwidge Danticat is one of the contemporary Caribbean’s most beloved authors, for her searing fiction and unsparing essays and memoirs. She speaks with Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw about the roots of her work, and if and how writing can bridge gaps of understanding and empathy.