“The world is often unkind to Black girls and Black women. Issues Black women have historically faced—oppression, racism, sexism, economic strife—are sometimes compounded in unimaginable ways. M.J. Fievre’s Empowered Black Girl couldn’t have come at a better time. The words from influential Black female role models, combined with Fievre’s own wisdom regarding self-love and self-esteem, will give readers the feeling of being heard and understood. Fievre’s tips for affirmations and other positive strategies are the tools her readers will able to utilize in their lives. It’s time for us Black girls and Black women to be empowered, and I’m glad we have Fievre to show us the way.” —Monique Jones, author of The Book of Awesome Black Americans

MJ is widely read in the French Caribbean http://ile-en-ile.org/fievre/ She has authored nine books in French Her short stories and poems in English have appeared in various anthologies and magazines Her plays have been performed at the Miami MicroTheater, at the O, Miami Festival, at Poetry Press Week, and at Compositum Musicae Novae. In 2016, Aesop Coconut Grove hosted an installation representing the meters of M.J.’s poem, “On Charles Avenue.” She founded Sliver of Stone Magazine She obtained an MFA from the Creative Writing Program at Florida International University. She taught writing for 8 years at Nova Middle School in Davie, and later became a writing professor at Broward College and Miami Dade College. She’s been a key note speaker at Tufts University (Massachusetts), Howard University (Washington, D.C.), the University of Miami (Florida), and Michael College (Vermont), and a panelist at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference (AWP).  She’s taught ekphrastic poetry and haiku workshops at the Miami Art Museum, and in various schools, including iTech @ Thomas A. Edison Educational Center, in Miami, and Tedder Elementary, in Pompano Beach. She’s an ambassador for Lip Service, a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation award-winning organization and a Miami institution. She’s also a proud member of the Miami Poetry Collective, famous for its Poem Depot, a regular feature of Wynwood’s Second Saturday Art Walk. She’s participated to Haiti en Livres, the Anancy Festival, and the South Florida Book Festival, and at various literary events at Miami  City Hall, Miami Dade College, Broward College (“Caribbean Week” and “Literary Feast”), and the University of Miami. She’s an educator who wrote several educational scripts for the University of Miami, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health. The scripts, turned into short films, were written in both English and Haitian Creole and aim at educating the Little Haiti community about diabetes, cervical cancer, and the HPV vaccine. In March 2015, M.J. received the “Beacon of Hope and Achievement Award” from the Consulate General of Haiti in Miami. M.J. currently serves at the ReadCaribbean program coordinator for the Miami Book Fair.