Marlène Rigaud Apollon

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

She was born in Cap-Haïtien and was educated at the Institution du Sacré-Cœur de Turgeau in Port-au-Prince, 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).

Selected works Source: I Want to Dance, poetry (1996) Si je n’avais que des regrets, poetry (1997) The Moon’s a Banana, I am me (1998) Haiti Trivia, youth non-fiction (1998), in English, French and Creole Haitian Art Trivia, youth non-fiction (2002), in English and Creole Elle s’appelait Elizabeth: L’histoire de Mère Marie Lange, biography translated into English as Her name was Elizabeth: The Story of Mother Mary Lange (2002) Cris de Colère, Chants d’espoir, poetry (2007) Louis Mercier, À la Reconquête de l’Idéal haïtien: Une voix d’hier pour aujourd’hui et demain, biography translated into English as Louis Mercier, To Reconquer the Haitian Ideal: A Voice from Yesterday for Today and Tomorrow (2008)