Herve Comeau Syracuse
Literature & Poetry, Immigration Law, Activism - Award-winning poet, immigration attorney, and activist Hervé Comeau, a Haitian immigrant, making a difference through words and social justice.
Herve Comeau Syracuse
Herve Comeau Syracuse ( @ herve_ yves ) is the winner of the 2018 Juniper Prize for Poetry for his first book, Children of the Down-swing. A first generation immigrant from Haiti, a writer, activist, and lawyer, Comeau was a winner of the Leonard Brown Poetry Prize, a recipient of the Cornelia Carhart Ward fellowship, and a finalist for the Olive B OConnor Fellowship. A graduate of Syracuse Universitys prest igious MFA program, his poetry has appeared in Pif, his fiction in Hobart, and more fiction is set to appear in the anthology Time Travel for All of Us. Comeau is currently working as a public interest immigration attorney in Syracuse, New York, where he serves on the advisory board of the New York Civil Liberties Union, and is a founding member of Black Lives Matter Syracuse.
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