NADINE PINEDE is the author of Uprooted: A Journey in Poems (Terra Nova Press), When the Mapou Sings, and An Invisible Geography, and a contributor to Haiti Noir, edited by Edwidge Danticat. Her forthcoming anthology, Earth is a Living Thing, gathers Black poetry that brings untold stories to light and imagines new ways of befriending the natural world. Pinede was born in Paris, grew up among the maple trees of Canada and Connecticut, and has always stayed rooted in the culture of Haiti, her parents’ homeland. She is a Harvard and Oxford graduate, and the first Rhodes Scholar of Haitian descent. She has collaborated with climate and human rights activists in Haiti and Latin America. Living with the hidden challenges of Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, near the resilient Sonian Forest, she is discovering how the unseen, whether in bodies or the natural world, can hold remarkable strength.
