Born in Haiti in 1994, Jean D’Amérique is a multi-awarded poet, playwright, rapper, and novelist. The author of several plays and collections of poetry, he has received the Prix de Poésie de la Vocation for No Way in the Skin without This Bloody Embrace (Cheyne, 2017 / Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022) and the Prix Montluc Résistance et Liberté for his first novel, A Sun to Be Sewn (Actes Sud, 2021 / Other Press, 2023).