The ORDINARY GIRLS Tour12/3/2019 2020
January 16 | Miami, FL Brickell Avenue Literary Series Hosted by Books & Books January 21 | Boston, MA Suffolk University Feb 5 – 7 | Pittsburgh, PA Co-Sponsored by Chatham University and City of Asylum In conversation with Kaveh Akbar February 11 | West Palm Beach, FL Palm Beach County Library February 14 – 16 | Savannah, GA Savannah Book Fest February 19 | Germantown, MD Montgomery College February 27 & 28 | Rochester, NY Monroe Community College March 4 – 8 | San Antonio, TX AWP Writers’ Conference Thursday March 5, 7:00 pm: The Rumpus: Reading with Vanessa Mártir and T Kira Madden, Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, TX, 2nd floor, 227L Friday March 6, 1:45pm to 3pm: Gender, Genre, Word, and the World: New Books from Trans and Queer Writers. With Oliver Baez Bendorf, T Fleischmann, Malcolm Tariq, and John Elizabeth Stintzi, Room 217C, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level Friday March 6, 5:00pm – 7:00pm: Memoir Monday Reading, Dead Tree Books Saturday March 7, 9:00am - 10:15am: Writing the Mother Wound, A Reading. With Elisabet Velasquez, Vanessa Martir, Leslie Contreras Schwartz, H'Rina DeTroy, Room 206A, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level March 11 – 13 | Nashville, TN Vanderbilt University Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities 2019-20 Harry C. Howard Jr. Lecture March 14 - 15 | Tucson, AZ Tucson Festival of Books March 18 - 20 | Charlottesville, VA Virginia Festival of the Book March 30 | West Chester, PA West Chester University April 4 | San Antonio, TX San Antonio Book Festival April 22 | Kansas City, MO Our Daily Nada Bookstore & Bar April 23 -24 | Warrensburg, MO University of Central Missouri Pleiades Visiting Writers Series April 24- 26 | Little Rock, AR Six Bridges Book Festival May 29 – June 3 | Bloomington, IN IU Writers Conference June 14 - 20 | Amherst, MA University of Massachusetts, Amherst Juniper Summer Writing Institute June 20 - 27 | Miami, FL University of Miami VONA Workshop in Memoir The ORDINARY GIRLS Tour7/29/2019 2019
September 13-15 | Spartanburg, SC SIBA (Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance) Fall Discovery Show October 2-4 | Cleveland, OH Heartland Fall Forum October 15-17 | Cherry Hill, NJ NAIBA (New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association) Fall Conference October 23 – 25 | Lubbock, TX Texas Tech University Reading Thursday October 24 7:30pm October 26 – 27 | Austin, TX Texas Book Festival October 28 | Miami, FL Miami Book Launch Books & Books, Coral Gables 8pm October 29 | Decatur, GA Charis Books October 31 | Tampa, FL University of South Florida November 2 | Baltimore, MD Baltimore Book Festival In conversation with Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes November 4 | Dallas, TX Interabang Books November 5 | Iowa City, IA Prairie Lights Books November 6 | Minneapolis, MN Magers & Quinn Booksellers In conversation with Anika Fajardo November 9 | St. Petersburg, FL Tampa Bay Times Festival of Reading: November 9 November 12 | Philadelphia, PA Blue Stoop reading series, Sponsored by UPenn In conversation with Carmen Maria Machado November 13 | The Bronx, NY The Lit. Bar In conversation with Vanessa Mártir, 6:30pm November 14 | Brooklyn, NY Books Are Magic Red Ink Series With Mira Ptacin, Crystal Hana Kim, Iris Martin Cohen November 17 | Spring Green, WI Arcadia Books November 18 | Madison, WI A Room of One’s Own Bookstore November 19 | Milwaukee, WI Boswell Books November 20 | Chicago, IL Women & Children First November 21 | Washington, DC Kramerbooks & Afterwords Café Dinner & A Story With Jamise Harper Nov 23 – 24 | Miami, FL Miami Book Fair Nov. 23: Caribbean Writers: Race, Gender, and Representation Location:Room 8301 (Bldg. 8, 3rdFloor) With Kevin Adonis Browne, Candice Carty-Williams, M.J. Fievre, Edwidge Danticat Nov. 24: In Their Own Words: A Reading Location:Room 2106 (Bldg. 2, 2nd Floor) With Amanda Yates Garcia and T. Kira Madden The ORDINARY GIRLS Tour!5/27/2019 Summer 2019: BookExpo in New York, May 28 - 31:   Amherst, MA: Juniper Summer Writing Institute, June 18 - 21, Craft Class & Reading New York, NY: KWELI International Literary Festival, Saturday July 20 Brooklyn, NY: The Center for Fiction, July 24 at 7pm, in conversation with Rebecca Godfrey and Melissa Febos March 13th at Books & Books Coral Gables2/21/2019 Join us in Miami!
Jaquira Díaz will be in conversation with T Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls. Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls is acclaimed essayist T Kira Madden's debut memoir about coming of age as a queer, biracial teenager living in Boca Raton, Florida. Madden will be joined in conversation by Jaquira Díaz, author of the forthcoming memoir, Ordinary Girls. March 13, 2019 at 8:00PM Books & Books Coral Gables Powell's City of Books Downtown
Wed March 27, 6:30 pm free T Kira Madden, Lidia Yuknavitch, and Jaquira Díaz, in conversation: Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls is acclaimed essayist T Kira Madden's debut memoir about coming of age as a queer, biracial teenager living in Boca Raton, Florida. Madden will be joined in conversation by Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan, and Jaquira Díaz, author of the forthcoming memoir, Ordinary Girls. I'll be reading at the Notre Dame Arts & Culture Center, Thursday October 25th at 7:30pm.  October 13th at the Wisconsin Book Fest10/7/2018 I will be at the Wisconsin Book Festival, in conversation with Ling Ma.
Ling Ma will read from her critically-acclaimed novel, SEVERANCE. A conversation with Jaquira Díaz and audience Q & A will follow. Saturday, October 13th - 3:00pm Madison Public Library, Central Library - The Bubbler More details here. Slice Literary Writers' Conference9/5/2018 Hey Brooklyn! I’ll be at the Slice Magazine Literary Writers’ Conference Saturday September 8 @ 10am. We’ll be sharing our publishing journeys, talking book deals and debut books. For more info, check out SliceLitCon.org.
ORDINARY GIRLS is Forthcoming in 2019!5/22/2018 For the last ten years, I’ve been writing a book about girls. A few months ago, my fierce and wonderful agent, Michelle Brower said, “Tell me your dreams, and I will work to make them come true.” And then she did. I can’t wait to share this book with you. ORDINARY GIRLS is forthcoming from Algonquin Books in 2019.  Reading at Kenyon College4/11/2018 The Kenyon Review Fellows' Farewell Reading, featuring Jaquira Díaz and Margaree Little, Wednesday April 11 at 4:00 pm, Kenyon College, Finn House.
Jaquira Díaz at AWP 2018 in Tampa3/6/2018 Here's where I'll be during AWP 2018: I'll be at the book fair, at the Kenyon Review booth (#533) every day from 1:00pm to 3:00pm. On Thursday March 8, I'll be there until 4:00pm. Come say hi! But also, check out these events: Thursday March 8, 2018 from 10:30am to 11:45am at the MARRIOTT WATERSIDE, Second Floor, Florida Salon 6 It’s (Not) All About Me: Personal Writing in an Age of Narcissism. (Krista Bremer, Sy Safransky, Jaquira Díaz, Heather Sellers, Crystal Williams) People who write about themselves are often accused of being self-absorbed, but is that true? Five contributors to The Sun talk about the perils and potential of personal writing. How do you construct a narrative about yourself that touches other people’s lives? We’ll explore the craft of personal essays as well as issues related to class, gender, and race. We’ll also ask: in these fraught times, should the personal also be political? Thursday March 8, 2018 from 5:00pm to 8:00pm at the Franklin Manor, 912 North Franklin Street, Tampa Now That's What I Call Music! A dance party sponsored by Kenyon Review, Tin House, and One Story. Featuring DJ sets from Hanif Abdurraqib, Kaveh Akbar, Jaquira Díaz, Manuel Gonzales, Margaree Little, and Claire Vaye Watkins.  Friday March 9, 2018 from 7:00pm at the University of Tampa's Henry B. Plant Park & Reading to follow at 7:30pm, at the Vaughn Center, Board of Trustees Room, University of Tampa Bullets into Bells: Rally & Reading at AWP PEN America and Beacon Press are teaming up for a rally and reading calling for an end to state-sanctioned violence. We are joining the call for action in the name of those killed at Stoneman Douglas and at Pulse, in the name of Trayvon Martin, and in the name of every life which has been lost to the epidemic of gun violence in our country. Readings by Richard Blanco, Tara Bray, Jericho Brown, Brian Clements, Jaquira Díaz, Nick Flynn, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Hafizah Geter, Joy Harjo, LeAnne Howe, Adrian Matejka, Jill McDonough, Dean Rader, Christopher Soto, Patricia Smith, Alexandra Teague. Each poem is followed by a response from a gun violence prevention activist, political figure, survivor, or concerned individual, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams; survivors of the Columbine, Sandy Hook, Charleston Emmanuel AME, and Virginia Tech shootings; Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir; and others.  Reading at Weber State University9/15/2017 Reading at Weber State University: 6pm on Thursday Oct 5 in the Union Building, Room 312. Details here.
Reading, along with A. H. Jerriod Avant, Jennifer Hope Choi, Tiana Clark, Lydia Conklin, Meghan Dunn, Jamie Figueroa, Edgar Kunz, Sonya Larson, Janice Obuchowski, Alan Rossi, Aurvi Sharma, William Pei Shih, Michael Weinstein, Annie Woodford, and Jenny Xie. (Listen to all 2017 Bread Loaf readings here.)
Reading at Bluffton University3/1/2017 I will be reading at Bluffton University in Ohio, Thursday March 23, at 4pm in the Musselman Library.
"Ordinary Girls," which first appeared in the Kenyon Review's Nov/Dec 2015 issue, will be reprinted in The Best American Essays 2016 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), edited by Jonathan Franzen. BAE 2016 will be out in book stores this fall.
Jaquira was recently awarded the 2016-18 Kenyon Review Fellowship in prose. Read editor David Lynn's "Why We Chose Them" in KROnline, in which he talks about Jaquira Diaz and Margaree Little (the 2016-18 Kenyon Review Fellow in poetry).
Reading: Dark Matters of Love1/8/2016 I will be reading with Amina Gautier, M.J. Fievre, and Anjanette Delgado at Books & Books in Coral Gables, on February 21 at 6pm! We'll be reading about dark matters of love. Join us!
Reading: Sexuality and Coming of Age1/1/2016 I will be reading with Vanessa Blakeslee, author of JUVENTUD, at Books & Books in Coral Gables, on Tuesday January 19th at 6pm. Vanessa will be reading from her debut novel, JUVENTUD, and we'll be talking about sexual coming-of-age stories. Join us!
IN CONVERSATION WITH TANWI NANDINI ISLAM12/9/2015 I will be in conversation with Tanwi Nandini Islam, author of BRIGHT LINES, at The Betsy Hotel South Beach on December 12th at 7pm! Join us for a reading and chat about coming-of-age stories, sexuality, and BRIGHT LINES!
FERAL CITY at UNDERCURRENT PROJECTS9/28/2015 If you're in NY, check out FERAL CITY, this amazing exhibition of collaboratively-produced art/prose/poetry, curated by Elisha Wagman. My collaboration with artist Mary Faulkner, and the work of many other talented artists and writers, will be featured at Undercurrent Projects (215 E. 5th Street) from September 29th to October 13.
Write A House announces the ten finalists for their second house! Meet the ten finalists and read more about it on the Write A House blog.
Reading at AWP '15/Minneapolis12/2/2014 I'll be reading with The Sun magazine at AWP '15 in Minneapolis:
The Ties That Bind: Writing from the Sun about Our Closest Relationships Room M100 H&I, Mezzanine Level Friday, April 10, 2015 @ 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm Featuring Krista Bremer, Sy Safransky, Jaquira Díaz, and Cristopher Dombrowski. Reading at University of Miami12/1/2014 You're invited! I'll be reading at the University of Miami as part of its USpeak reading series!
February 26th from 6:30pm to 8:30pm University of Miami CAS Gallery 1210 Stanford Drive Wesley Foundation Building Coral Gables, FL |