Jennifer Celestin
Meet the Instructor
Jennifer Celestin is a Haitian-American writer, performer, and facilitator. She has performed at numerous venues in New York City, including the Bowery Poetry Club & Café, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, and El Museo del Barrio. A former EMERGE NYC fellow, Jennifer has also performed and facilitated workshops outside of the US in Montreal and Haiti. Fluent in English, Haitian Creole, and Spanish, her writings have been included in Label Me Latina/o, Akashicbooks.com, No, Dear Magazine, The Hawai'i Review, la Revue Trois/Sant/Soixante, aaduna, and Midnight & Indigo. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University, a Master of Arts from New York University, and her Master of Fine Arts in Fiction at CUNY: Queens College. A 2022 Kweli Journal fellow, Jennifer is currently working on a novel and a short story collection.