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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 Beach, Jaquira Díaz is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, the Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, 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, Summer Literary Seminars, the Tin House Summer Writers' Workshop, the Key West Literary Seminar, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her work is noted in Best American Essays 2012, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014, Best American Essays 2014, anthologized in Pushcart Prize XXXVII: Best of the Small Presses, and appears in Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Sun, The Southern Review, Salon, Five Chapters, The Rumpus, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, 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.
