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"Jaquira Díaz illuminates the beauty and brutality of being a teenager." -The Southern Review |
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About Jaquira
Jaquira was born in Puerto Rico and raised in Miami. She is the Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and the AWP Intro Journals Award in Fiction. Her work has been selected as Notable in Best American Essays 2012, and she was an honoree of The Atlantic student writing contest and Playboy's College Fiction contest. Her work will be anthologized in Sins and Needles: Writers and their Tattoos and Girls on Fire. She was a Tennessee Williams Scholar in fiction at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pushcart Prize XXXVII: Best of the Small Presses, The Kenyon Review, The Sun, The Southern Review, Southeast Review, The Los Angeles Review, and Slice Magazine, among other publications. (She also knows all the words to Slick Rick's "La Di Da Di," even the Doug E. Fresh beat box parts.)
A graduate of the MFA program at the University of South Florida, Jaquira is the co-founder of Life Out Loud, and editor of 15 Views of Miami, a linked collection of stories, forthcoming from Burrow Press.
A graduate of the MFA program at the University of South Florida, Jaquira is the co-founder of Life Out Loud, and editor of 15 Views of Miami, a linked collection of stories, forthcoming from Burrow Press.
