Words that carry care, culture, and the human pulse.
I am a multilingual journalist, poet, and novelist working at the meeting point of health, Haitian & Caribbean culture, and the diaspora, drawn always to the lives that too often go unwritten.
From a Port-au-Prince childhood to the beating heart of human life.
Marie Juliane David grew up in Port-au-Prince with a book always within reach. A love of reading grew, quietly at first, into the need to write, and later into a parallel path alongside her medical studies at the Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie of the Université d'État d'Haïti. She never chose between the two callings; she let them inform each other, learning to read a life the way one reads a patient, and a patient the way one reads a story.
Her journalism took shape in Haiti's newsrooms and institutional publications. She wrote for Le Nouvelliste; for the newsletter of the Réseau Haïtien des Journalistes de la Santé (RHJS), the health-journalists' network of which she is a member and on whose directing committee she served; and for the newsletter of ODELPA, the organization for the fight against poverty. Her reporting moved between health, culture, art, and the everyday texture of community life.
Between assignments, another body of work was taking form. Four published books appeared between 2018 and 2023: three collections of poetry and a novel, Éloise. In 2021 her short text was chosen by public vote for the Prix Public Portez Haut les Couleurs at Short Edition, selected from more than three hundred francophone entrants.
At the end of 2023 she left Haiti to settle in the United States, where she now serves as Director of Publications at CreARTivity Magazine. Her focus has widened to include the diaspora, the communities that carry Haiti and the Caribbean with them, while her attention stays where it has always been: on care, on culture, and on the human beings behind the story.
Four threads, one through-line
Different subjects, the same instinct: to give language to what is felt, endured, and rarely recorded.
Health & Medicine
Reporting rooted in a medical education, bringing clarity and human warmth to the stories of illness, care, and the people who provide it.
Culture & the Arts
Profiles, features, and criticism on Haitian and Caribbean cultural life: the writers, artists, and traditions that shape a people's imagination.
Diaspora & Community
The lives of Haitian and Caribbean communities in the United States and beyond: stories of migration, belonging, and the things that get carried across.
Fiction & Poetry
Beyond the newsroom, a novelist and poet, with four published books where the questions journalism leaves open are answered in a different key.
A path in chapters
A first collection: Ma Muse du Soir
Evening poems written between deadlines and reveries mark the beginning of a published literary life.
Poetry · Éditions Canapé-VertA second collection: Ma Muse du Soir, tome II
The evening muse returns, older and more searching, continuing the conversation begun in the first volume.
Poetry · Éditions Canapé-VertThe novel Éloise
A young Haitian woman finds her voice in a Port-au-Prince that is itself learning to speak. A story of memory, inheritance, and becoming oneself.
Novel · Éditions du NetA prize, and a place in the network
Winner of the Prix Public Portez Haut les Couleurs at Short Edition, chosen by public vote from 300+ entrants. Elected to the directing committee of the RHJS health-journalists' network.
Distinction · Short EditionA new chapter in the United States
A third poetry volume, Poésie 2, is published. At year's end, a move from Haiti to the U.S. opens the work toward the diaspora.
Poetry · Maison d'Éditions ToussaintDirector of Publications, CreARTivity Magazine
Leading editorial work from the United States while continuing to report across health, culture, and diaspora, and to write fiction and poetry between assignments.
Editorial · CreARTivityPrix Public Portez Haut les Couleurs
Awarded by public vote for the short text À moins d'un kilomètre de la ligne d'arrivée, selected from more than three hundred francophone participants.
View the announcement →Written about, as well as writing
My work and my path have been profiled in the Haitian and francophone press, from national dailies to the health-journalism community.
Let's work together
Available for commissioned features, interviews, profiles, and editorial consulting, in French, English, Haitian Creole, and Spanish.
Available For
Long-form health reporting · Caribbean cultural journalism · diaspora stories · interviews & profiles · editorial consulting & ghostwriting.
Working Languages
French · English · Haitian Creole · Spanish
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