Lisa Page

Biography

Lisa Page is a member of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation’s board of directors and its former president. She has published work in the Washington Post Book World, Playboy, Washingtonian, Savoy, and the Chicago Tribune. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the anthologies Gravity Dancers (Paycock, 2009), Dream Me Home Safely (Houghton Mifflin, 2003), and Skin Deep: Black Women and White Women Write About Race (Anchor, 1995). Page teaches creative writing at George Washington University.

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CRITICISM / Fall 2013

Edwidge Danticat Illuminates Haiti

By Lisa Page

It is through Edwidge Danticat that Haiti emerges beyond the illusion, and her fiction and nonfiction open our eyes to the history and complexity of the island.