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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, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, a Bread Loaf work-study scholarship, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and an NEA Fellowship to the Hambidge Center for the Arts. Her work has been noted in Best American Essays, will be anthologized in Sins and Needles: Writers and their Tattoos and Girls on Fire, 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.
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.
