Myriam J.A. Chancy, WHAT STORM, WHAT THUNDER

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 10 October 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Zibby is joined by Guggenheim Fellow, academic, and author Myriam J.A. Chancy to discuss her latest novel, What Storm, What Thunder. Although Myriam wasn't planning on writing about the devastating earthquake that hit her homeland of Haiti in 2010, she knew she had a story to tell after seeing the late LeRoy Clarke's artwork. Myriam shares her own experiences following the earthquake, a handful of the real-life stories that inspired her fiction, and how listeners can get involved to help the people of Haiti in their new time of need. One such way is to support FOKAL. Based in Port-au-Prince, FOKAL has partnered with their US 501C3,“Ayiti Demen” to collect funds to be distributed to 20+ grassroots organizations in the Southern peninsula of Haiti. You can read their entire action plan, and donate here:

https://ademen.org/fokal-haiti-relief-fund/. You can also Text SOUTHHaiti to 44321 if you are in the United States. FOKAL’s complete website can be found here: https://fokal.org

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.0	I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology,
0:12.2	which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology.
0:16.8	All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research.
0:20.4	And I'm the editor-in-chief of Moms Don't Have Time to Write a new publication on Medium. And we're accepting submissions, so please send your personal essays there. And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens. And my website is Zibby Owens.com. Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. Miriam J.A. Chansey is the author of
0:40.7	What Storm, What Thunder, a novel. Miriam is a Haitian, Canadian, American writer, the HBA
0:46.0	Chair in the Humanities at Scripps College in Claremont, California, and a fellow of the John
0:50.7	Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Welcome, Miriam. Thank you so much for coming
0:55.5	and moms don't have time to read books to discuss Wet Storm, Wet Thunder. Thank you so much for
1:00.1	having me, Zabia. I've been following your podcast and I love it. I'm really happy. And you're the first
1:04.7	podcaster to contact me about What Storm, What Thunder. So I really appreciate your attention
1:09.9	to it. Yeah. yeah wow you're the first
1:12.0	person to book us so you know I have to jump on the good things I don't know what to say I just you know
1:17.2	I know a good thing when I see it I'm so happy to hear it oh that's awesome I do like the advance notice
1:23.3	it's good to you know book anyway whatever delighted delighted that happened. Would you mind telling listeners what your book is about and what inspired you to write it, which in this case is fairly obvious. But anyway, you tell them.
1:37.9	Yeah. So I'm originally from Haiti and from Poe-au-au-au-Plains. And, you know, the earthquake of 2010 was really shattering for,
1:47.3	you know, people in Porre Plains for my family, acquaintances and colleagues. And I spent several
1:54.0	years. So I'm also an academic. I'm a scholar of Caribbean literature and Haitian women's literature
1:59.0	specifically. And so I was known for having written on those topics.
2:02.7	And so I was booked for a lot of talks about best practices,
2:06.9	what would happen to vulnerable communities after the earthquake of 2010,
2:10.6	which killed upwards of 250,000 people and left 1.5 million people homeless.
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