When I was about 12 years old. I still have a lot of family in Haiti, so I go back as much as I can. Well, I started writing first for a newspaper in New York called New Youth Connection, which is circulated within high schools in New York City. So I guess I was about 14 when I wrote my first article for them. It was really a strange experience because I was really shy, and to see people read your work and react to it was a new experience to me.
Writing is more of a passion.
I didn't think it was something you could study until after I graduated from college and decided to do an M.F.A. Part of the reason I decided to do that was to have more time to write, and to take my work more seriously. So I got a Master's in Fine Arts from Brown University. I got it at Barnard College, and it was in French Literature. A lot of the fiction coming from this new generation of Caribbean writers tends to be somewhat autobiographical. Even if it's not completely personal.