JAQUIRA DÍAZ

The ORDINARY GIRLS Paperback Virtual Tour

8/29/2020

 
Kicking off the ORDINARY GIRLS Paperback Tour with EL GRAN COMBO on September 1 & 8!
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September 12 | KWELI International Literary Festival
Memoir Master Class: Expanding the Personal Narrative

2pm-5pm EST


October 4 | Brooklyn Book Fest
Presented with The Center for Fiction

7pm EST
Love and Resistance
with Angie Cruz, Carolina De Robertis, and Quiara Alegria Hudes
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October 6 | Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts 
Bucknell University



October 7 | Miami Date College
Presented with the Miami Book Fair

1pm EST 
with Lissette Mendez

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October 8 | Six Bridges Book Festival
12pm Central Time
 with Cassandra King Conroy

  
October 19 | Purchase College
Durst Distinguished Lecture Series
7pm EST


October 20 | West Chester University
12:30pm EST 


October 22 | University of Central Missouri
5pm Central Time 
with Tiana Clark


October 27 | DePaul University
12pm Central Time
in Conversation with Barrie Jean Borich and Erika Sanchez

 




The ORDINARY GIRLS Tour

12/3/2019

 

2020
 

January 16 | Miami, FL
 
Brickell Avenue Literary Series
​Hosted by Books & Books 
 
 
January 21 | Boston, MA
 
Suffolk University



January 28 | Oakland Park, FL

Broward Public Library Foundation Event,
at Funky Buddha Brewery, 7:00pm to 8:30pm
1201 NE 38th Street
Oakland Park, FL




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, 6:30pm




February 12 | West Palm Beach, FL

The Book Cellar, 6:30pm


 

February 14 – 16 | Savannah, GA
 
Savannah Book Fest




February 19 | Germantown, MD

Montgomery College, 11:30am




February 27 & 28 | Rochester, NY
 
Monroe Community College  
 
 

March 4 –  8 | San Antonio, TX - CANCELLED
 
AWP Writers’ Conference:

Wednesday March 4, 6:30pm to 8:30pm: LatiNEXT & Proud Reading & Pachanga, Hosted by José Olivarez & Willie Perdomo, featuring Alfredo Aguilar, J. Estanislao Lopez, Edyka Chilomé, Sara Borjas, Malcolm Friend, Ana Portnoy Brimmer, Reyes Ramirez, Joseph Rios, Daniella Tootsie-Watson, Javier Zamora  Casa Azul de Andrea, 1036 S Alamo St, San Antonio, TX 78210  

Thursday March 5, 7:00pm to 8:30pm: The Rumpus: Reading with Emily Arnason Casey, Lennlee Keep, Erin Khar, T Kira Madden, and Vanessa Mártir! Hosted by Kelly Thompson. 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, with Emma Copley Eisenberg, Erin Khar, and Natalie Lima, Dead Tree Books, 5645 S Flores ST #105, San Antonio, TX 
 
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 - CANCELLED
Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities
2019-20 Harry C. Howard Jr. Lecture    

 

March 14 - 15 | Tucson, AZ

Tucson Festival of Books - CANCELLED
 
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March 18 - 20 | Charlottesville, VA
 
Virginia Festival of the Book - CANCELLED



March 30 | West Chester, PA
 
West Chester University - CANCELLED



April 4 | San Antonio, TX
 
San Antonio Book Festival - CANCELLED



April 22 | Kansas City, MO
 
Wise Blood KC
300 Westport Rd
Kansas City, Missouri

Wednesday, April 22 @ 7pm - CANCELLED

 
 
April 23 -24 | Warrensburg, MO 
 
University of Central Missouri 
Pleiades Visiting Writers Series - CANCELLED


April 24- 26 | Little Rock, AR
 
Six Bridges Book Festival - 
CANCELLED
 
 
May 29 – June 3 | Bloomington, IN
 
IU Writers Conference - 
CANCELLED


June 14 - 20 | Amherst, MA
 
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Juniper Summer Writing Institute - 
CANCELLED


June 20 - 27 | Miami, FL

University of Miami
​VONA Workshop in Memoir - 
CANCELLED
 
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The ORDINARY GIRLS Tour

7/29/2019

 
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:


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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 Gables

2/21/2019

 
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
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March 27th at Powell's City of Books in Portland

2/20/2019

 
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.

October 25th at Notre Dame Arts & Culture Center

10/7/2018

 
I'll be reading at the Notre Dame Arts & Culture Center, Thursday October 25th at 7:30pm. 
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October 13th at the Wisconsin Book Fest

10/7/2018

 
I will be at the Wisconsin Book Festival, in conversation with Ling Ma.
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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' Conference

9/5/2018

 
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.
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Reading at Kenyon College

4/11/2018

 
The Kenyon Review Fellows' Farewell Reading, featuring Jaquira Díaz and Margaree Little, Wednesday April 11 at 4:00 pm, Kenyon College, Finn House. 

Reading in Miami

3/17/2018

 
A PageSlayers Reading, in Miami, March 17, 2018, 1:00 pm, at The Deering Estate. 
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Jaquira Díaz at AWP 2018 in Tampa

3/6/2018

 
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.  ​
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​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.
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Reading at Weber State University

9/15/2017

 
Reading at Weber State University: 6pm on Thursday Oct 5 in the Union Building, Room 312. Details here.

UNT Visiting Writers Series

9/15/2017

 
I'll be reading at the University of North Texas, as part of their Visiting Writers Series, Thursday, September 21, 2017 - 8:00pm.

Reading at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference

8/16/2017

 
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 University

3/1/2017

 
I will be reading at Bluffton University in Ohio, Thursday March 23, at 4pm in the Musselman Library. 

Jaquira Díaz's "Ordinary Girls" in The Best American Essays 2016

4/15/2016

 
"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 Díaz awarded Kenyon Review Fellowship!

4/15/2016

 
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 Love

1/8/2016

 
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 Age

1/1/2016

 
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 ISLAM

12/9/2015

 
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 PROJECTS

9/28/2015

 
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.

Jaquira Díaz Named Write A House Finalist!

8/20/2015

 
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/Minneapolis

12/2/2014

 
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.


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