Fabienne Josaphat is the 2023 PEN Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, and the author of the forthcoming novel Kingdom of No Tomorrow (Algonquin). Her first novel, Dancing in the Baron’s Shadow, was published by Unnamed Press. She has published fiction in The Bellevue Literary Review, Pleiades, The Caribbean Writer and the Master’s Review, poems in Kitchen Table Quarterly, Grist Journal, Hinchas de Poesia, and Eight Miami Poets, and essays in the Hong Kong Review, The Washington Post and Teen Vogue. She is currently at work on a third novel.

2025 Festival Session