Marlène Rigaud Apollon

Marlène Rigaud Apollon (born May 23, 1945) is a Haitian-born educator and writer who has been living in the United States since 1964.

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• Selected works
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She was born in Cap-Haïtien and was educated at the Institution du Sacré-Cœur de Turgeau in Port-au-Prince, going on to earn a BA from the University of Maryland and a MS in from Towson University. She has taught French and French literature at the primary, secondary and university levels.

Her work has appeared in the periodicals Sapriphage, Utah Foreign Language Review and River City. Her story "Manman pas kite yo koupe janm mwen, Mommy, don’t let them cut my leg" was included in the anthology Haïti Rising (2010).