Fabrice Guerrier

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Fabrice Guerrier
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Guerrier in 2020
Born (1991-11-14) November 14, 1991 (age 32)
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Nationality Haitian-American
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Website fabriceguerrier.com

Fabrice Guerrier is a Haitian-American writer and artist. He is the founder of the sci-fi and fantasy production house and publisher, Syllble. [1] The Root Magazine described the writer and founder as using "...the internet to create a social, political and intellectual explosion similar to the Harlem Renaissance." [2]

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Guerrier works as a columnist for Haiti Observateur, a newspaper based in Brooklyn, New York, where he writes on Haitian Futurism. [3] In 2020, he was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. [4] In 2021, he was named to The Root's 100 Most Influential African Americans in the United States between the ages of 25 and 45 in the "Arts" category. [5]

Early life

Guerrier was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 1991. At the age of 13, he emigrated to Coral Springs, Florida, with his family, the same year as the 2004 Haitian coup d'état. [6] He graduated from Florida State University (FSU) with a BA in International Relations and from Eastern Mennonite University's (EMU) Center for Justice and Peacebuilding with an MA in Conflict Transformation. [7] [8] While at FSU, Guerrier founded the LEEHG Institute, a student-run think tank, [9] and became a member of the Theta Chi Fraternity. [10]

Career

In 2015, Guerrier was named the PEN Haiti Fellow at PEN America. He traveled to Port-au-Prince, Haiti to work at the PEN Haiti Center with Haitian poets, writers and journalists. [11] In 2017, Guerrier was appointed National President of the racial reconciliation organization Coming to the Table, founded by both black and white linked descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, the woman he enslaved on his Monticello plantation. [12]

Syllble

In 2018, Guerrier founded Syllble, the first science fiction and fantasy production house with the aim to bring more access to underrepresented writers and creative voices from around the world and in the entertainment business. [13] [14] [15]

In October 2020, Syllble partnered with Moko Magazine Caribbean Arts and Letters to establish the Caribbean Sky Islands fictional world and publish stories from Black Caribbean speculative fiction writers. [16] [17]

In May 2021, Guerrier collaborated with The Innovation Station: Creative Industry Lab at the U.S. State Department to bring together science fiction writers from around the world to solve some of the worlds toughest global challenges through the One Humanity Writing Collective. [18]

In February 2022, Syllble partnered with Brittle Paper magazine to establish the first collaborative African fantasy universe called Sauúti. [19] [20]

Awards and honors

Bibliography

Fiction books

Non-fiction Books

Poetry

Anthologies

Short fiction

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