Anick Lavigne is the author of Broken; a biographical debut novel set first in Haiti, and unfolded in New York. An excerpt of Broken, titled: “One Afternoon in 1987”, was published in 2003 by Dwa Fanm, a grassroots advocacy organization committed to the rights of Haitian women and girls.

Lavigne, a member of Writer’s Digest and Doubleday Book Club, is working on her second novel, a work of fiction, as yet untitled which reflects the life of an adolescent girl punctuated by neglect, abuse, abandonment and sexual exploitation. www.anicklavigne.com