Juliana Lamy is a Haitian-American fiction writer currently living in South Florida. She is the author of You Were Watching from the Sand: Short Stories (Red Hen Press, 2023), which was a finalist for the OCM Bocas Prize in Caribbean Fiction (2024), a finalist for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction (2024), and the winner of the CLMP Firecracker Literary Award in Fiction (2024). She received her Bachelor’s in History & Literature from Harvard College, and her MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She seeks to write fiction that centers Haitian and Haitian American narratives too infrequently explored, particularly those of Haitians who occupy the working class in their home country as well as abroad.
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“Every sentence Juliana Lamy writes is like a match being struck. Not many authors debut with her clarity of vision, inventiveness, and verbal agility, and I would wager almost anything that You Were Watching from the Sand will mark only the first chapter in an important body of work.” — Kevin Brockmeier
“These thrilling stories are triumphs of voice and style, of landscape, of finding unanticipated bursts of beauty in the most ferocious of times. Juliana Lamy writes with stunning insight about the groundswells of rupture and healing, of community and isolation, that shape her characters’ lives. You Were Watching from the Sand is a brilliant and unforgettable debut.” — Laura van den Berg