JAQUIRA DÍAZ

"Girls, Monsters" in Tin House

12/14/2017

 
"Girls, Monsters" appears in Tin House's Flash Fidelity.

"You Do Not Belong Here" in the Kenyon Review Online

9/15/2017

 
"You Do Not Belong Here," an essay for the Kenyon Review Online's Resistance, Change, Survival. 

"Who is the Real Kali Uchis?" in The FADER

7/21/2017

 
"Who is the Real Kali Uchis?" in The FADER's Summer Music issue.

"Inside the Brutal Baby Lollipops Murder Case that Shook South Florida" in Rolling Stone

1/15/2017

 
"Inside the Brutal Baby Lollipops Murder Case that Shook South Florida," a piece about the Baby Lollipops murder, appears in RollingStone.com. 

"Ordinary Girls" in The Best American Essays 2016

10/1/2016

 
"Ordinary Girls," which originally appeared in The Kenyon Review, was reprinted in The Best American Essays 2016, edited by Jonathan Franzen. Read an excerpt in The Kenyon Review Online.
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"Girl Hood: On (Not) Finding Yourself in Books"

9/1/2016

 
"Girl Hood: On (Not) Finding Yourself in Books" appears in Waveform: Twenty-First Century Essays by Women (University of Georgia Press). 

"Puerto Rico's Last Political Prisoner"

7/10/2016

 
"Puerto Rico's Last Political Prisoner," in The Guardian.
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"Beach City"

4/13/2016

 
​"Beach City," Brevity, May 2016.  

"Monster Story"

4/12/2016

 
​"Monster Story," Ninth Letter, May 2016.
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"Ordinary Girls"

12/3/2015

 
"Ordinary Girls," Kenyon Review, Nov/Dec 2015.  
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"Rescue from Dead Dog Beach"

11/2/2015

 
"Rescue from Dead Dog Beach," in The Guardian. 
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"Ghosts" 

11/2/2015

 
"Ghosts," which first appeared in The Kenyon Review, received a Special Mention in Pushcart Prize XL: Best of the Small Presses:. 
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"My Mother and Mercy"

9/28/2015

 
"My Mother and Mercy," originally published in The Sun, was named a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2015.
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"Ghosts" 

10/12/2014

 
"Ghosts," originally published in The Kenyon Review, was named a Notable Story in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014. 
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"Girl Hood: On (not) Finding Yourself in Books"

10/12/2014

 
"Girl Hood: On (not) Finding Yourself in Books," originally published in Her Kind, was named a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2014.
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"How Memory is Written and Rewritten"

8/30/2014

 
"How Memory is Written and Rewritten: On Adriana Páramo's My Mother's Funeral," Los Angeles Review of Books, August 2014.

"My Mother and Mercy"

8/1/2014

 
"My Mother and Mercy" The Sun, August 2014. 
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"Reflections, While Sitting in Traffic"

5/23/2014

 
"Reflections, While Sitting in Traffic" TriQuarterly, Summer/Fall 2014.

"December" in Salon

12/30/2013

 
My two-sentence holiday story, "December," appears in Salon, alongside stories by some amazing writers, including Lauren Groff, Owen King, Elliott Holt, and Porochista Khakpour. 

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"La Desaparecida"

9/4/2013

 
"La Desaparecida," Ploughshares, Winter 2013-2014. 


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"Ghosts"

9/4/2013

 
"Ghosts," The Kenyon Review, Winter 2014. 


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"Cami"

9/3/2013

 
"Cami," a novel excerpt from Normandy Park, storySouth, Fall 2013. 

"Sewanee Summer"

9/2/2013

 
"Sewanee Summer," Five Chapters, September 2013.

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"Season of Risks"

3/1/2013

 
"Season of Risks," The Southern Review, Spring 2013.  

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"Girl Hood: On (not) Finding Yourself in Books" 

1/16/2013

 
"Girl Hood: On (not) Finding Yourself in Books," Her Kind, January 2013.
When you grow up poor, sometimes books are the only connection you have to the world that exists outside your neighborhood. You begin to imagine that the people in those books matter. You imagine that they are important—maybe even immortal—because someone wrote about them. But you? When you fail to find yourself in books—or people like you, who live in neighborhoods like yours, who look like you and love like you—you begin to question your place in the world. You begin to question if those people who make up your neighborhood and your family are worth writing about, if you are worth writing about. Maybe no one thinks about them or you. Maybe no one sees you.


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