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Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-born writer and the editor of Haiti Noir, talks about her collection of stories about Haiti, one year after the earthquake.

Edwidge Danticat stopped by The Leonard Lopate Show to share some of her favorite picks, and more.

Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile, and discusses what it means to be an immigrant artist from a country in crisis. Her book Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work combines memoir and essay to tell the stories of artists, including herself, who create, despite—or because of—the suffering, violence, poverty, and oppression that drove them from their homelands, and continues to haunt them.

Haitian American novelist Edwidge Danticat has been busy, of late.  She has two new books hitting bookstores this fall: Eight Days is a children's book about a boy trapped in the rubble after the earthquake in Haiti, and Create Dangerously is a book of reflections on the task of the immigrant writer.

The situation in Haiti has been front page news in the Miami area since the earthquake hit in mid-January. We find out how the Haitian community there is dealing with the disaster on a day-to-day basis. We look at how Haitians in South Florida are dealing with new temporary immigration policies.

Then we turn to artist Edwige Danticat, one of Miami’s most prominent Haitian-Americans.

Brother, I’m Dying is available for purchase at amazon.com