Marilene Phipps-Kettlewell at Upstairs on the Square

Please Join Porter Square Books and PEN/New England for Marilene Phipps-Kettlewell at Upstairs on the Square.

Painter, poet, and short story writer Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell was born and grew up in Haiti. Her collection The Company of Heaven: Stories from Haiti won the 2010 Iowa Short Fiction Award. She has held fellowships at the Guggenheim Foundation, the Bunting Institute, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, and the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University. She is a winner of the Grolier prize for poetry, and her collection Crossroads and Unholy Water won the Crab Orchard Poetry Prize. Her work has been published in Callaloo, the Crab Orchard Review, the New Arcadia Review, Ploughshares and The Best American Short Stories.

Please note: this is an off-site event to be held at Upstairs on the Square in Cambridge, MA.

About PEN New England

PEN (Poets/Playwrights,
Essayists/Editors, Novelists) New England is an organization of published authors, aspiring writers, and all who love the written word.  Our mission is to advance the cause of literature in New England and defend free expression everywhere. PEN New England is a branch of PEN American Center, and part of International PEN, the oldest international literary organization and also the oldest human rights organization in
the world.