Cherline Bazile

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Cherline Bazile is a Haitian American fiction writer from Florida. She graduated from Harvard University, where she studied English with Honors. Cherline was an Artist Fellow at Harvard’s Office of Fine Arts, a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, a Thouron Prize recipient, and a Hoopes Prize recipient.Cherline attended the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, where she received her MFA in Fiction. At HZWP, Cherline won three Hopwood awards and was a 2019 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow.Her fiction has been featured in NPR, The Sewanee Review, Symphony Space Theater, and the Best American Short Stories 2023, among others. Cherline has attended workshops & residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, NY State Summer Writers Institute, and Tin House Summer Workshop. She is a Public Voices Fellow with The Op-Ed Project, and a GrubStreet Teaching Fellow. She lives in Boston.