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"Jaquira Díaz illuminates the beauty and brutality of being a teenager." -The Southern Review |
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Born in Puerto Rico and raised in Miami, Jaquira Díaz is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, an AWP Intro Journals Award in Fiction, and an NEA Fellowship to the Hambidge Center for the Arts. She's been awarded fellowships or scholarships from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, The MacDowell Colony, the Summer Literary Seminars, the Tin House Summer Writers' Workshop, the Key West Literary Seminar, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her work has been noted in Best American Essays 2012, and appears in Pushcart Prize XXXVII: Best of the Small Presses, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Sun, The Southern Review, Salon, and Five Chapters, 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 editor of 15 Views of Miami, a collection of linked stories forthcoming (November 2014) from Burrow Press, Associate Fiction Editor at West Branch, and Assistant Essays Editor at The Rumpus. Starting this summer, she will be hosting Sunday Salon Miami.
A graduate of the MFA program at the University of South Florida, Jaquira is editor of 15 Views of Miami, a collection of linked stories forthcoming (November 2014) from Burrow Press, Associate Fiction Editor at West Branch, and Assistant Essays Editor at The Rumpus. Starting this summer, she will be hosting Sunday Salon Miami.
