Marilene Phipps

Marilene Phipps was born and raised in Haiti. She was a 1995 Guggenheim fellow, the 1993 Grolier Poetry Prize winner, and a 1992-93 fellow at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe and Harvard. She studied anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and is an M.F.A. graduate of Pennsylvania University.