Jaquira Díaz Biography
Jaquira Díaz is an American Puerto Rican fiction writer, essayist, journalist, cultural critic, and contributor to many notable periodicals. Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays like The Kenyon Review, Tin House, The Sun, The Fader, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Longreads, The Southern Review, and in some other places. She is also an editor at the Kenyon Review and a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Jaquira Díaz Education
Jaquira Díaz received her B.A. from the University of Central Florida and M.F.A. from the University of South Florida and she has been a recipient of fellowships from The Kenyon Review, Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin Madison, Ragdale Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The MacDowell Colony, Tin House Summer Writers’ Workshop, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, as well as the NEA Distinguished Fellowship from the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences.
Jaquira Díaz Career
Díaz’s fiction and essays are predominantly set in Puerto Rico and Miami, and most of them have been described as “lyrical” and “urgent” and they are often focused on the intensely personal tragedies and triumphs of young women who are maturing in the dangerous world. Díaz writes about crime, politics, sexuality, race, music, and culture in her literary writing, and she is been described as an elegant prose stylist.
Diaz was listed in the Los Angeles Times critic in 2017 by Walton Muyumba and she was listed as “part of the necessary cipher and gifted in an extreme freestylers” which includes writers like Ta-Nehisi Coates, Isabel Wilkerson, Carol Anderson, Claudia Rankine, Terrance Hayes, Kiese Laymon, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Junot Díaz, and Jelani Cobb, were listed among the Remezcla’s “15 Latinx Music Journalists You Should be Reading” and all this were included in NPR’s Alt.
In 2018, Electric Literature’s Ivelisse Rodriguez named Diaz among the writers who are changing the topography of Puerto Rican literature and describing Díaz’s essays as an awakening of sexual desire and sexual threat in all women experience.”
In May 2018, Díaz announced that she had signed a two-book deal with Algonquin Books; the first book, Ordinary Girls memoir, was published by Algonquin on October 29, 2019, that explored themes of girlhood in a dangerous world projecting the streets of Puerto Rico and Miami. Her second book, I am Deliberate, will be a novel.
Jaquira Díaz Age|Birthday
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Jaquira Díaz Family|Early life
Jaquira Díaz was born in Humacao, Puerto Rico, the United States to Puerto Rican descendants. Her family lived in the Puerto Rican housing projects, colloquially referred to as el caserío. The neighborhood of Puerto Rico was made up of government housing, and something of a dangerous reputation.
Díaz contributes some of her identity issues to be what she describes as “a closeted queer girl” in a neighborhood where gay people were harassed and attacked. Another issue was the family’s financial situation. Her father, who had studied at the University of Puerto Rico and whom she describes as a lover of poetry and literature, became a drug dealer in order to support the family.
As she grew older, writing continued to be an important outlet for her, and her writing developed a semi-autobiographical character, often dealing with suicide, drug use, and identity. Díaz, in an interview she gave to Origins, tells stories of being menaced by a machete-armed man, and of raids by the local Police force, referred to as Los Camarones.
When she was older, her family moved to Miami. Growing up in Miami Beach during what she describes as the city’s “urban blight,” she had a difficult life, marked by drug use, attempts at suicide, and encounters with the law.
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Jaquira Díaz Selected works
- “Ordinary Girls” in The Kenyon Review and The Best American Essays 2016
- “Girl Hood: On (Not) Finding Yourself in Books” in Her Kind, reprinted in Waveform: Twenty-first Century Essays by Women (Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2014)
- “My Mother and Mercy” in The Sun (Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2015)
- “Beach City” in Brevity and in Pushcart Prize XLII: Best of the Small Presses
- “Baby Lollipops” in The Sun (Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2012)
- “Monster Story” in Ninth Letter (Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2017)
- “How Memory is Written and Rewritten: On Adriana Paramo’s My Mother’s Funeral” in the Los Angeles Review of Books
- “Girls, Monsters” in Tin House
- “You Do Not Belong Here” in The Kenyon Review Online (Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2018).
- “La Otra” in Longreads
Jaquira Díaz Short stories
- “A Fairy Tale Set in Florida, in 10 Parts” in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, in collaboration with Laura van den Berg, Lindsay Hunter, Karen Russell, Alissa Nutting, Andrew Holleran, Lauren Groff, Diana Abu-Jaber, Sarah Gerard, and Jeff VanderMeer.
- “Section 8” in The Southern Review and Pushcart Prize XXXVII: Best of the Small Presses
- “Ghosts” in The Kenyon Review (received Special Mention in Pushcart Prize XL: Best of the Small Presses, and Notable Story in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014)
- “December” in Salon, as part of the Two-sentence Holiday Fiction feature
Jaquira Díaz Other work
- “Who Is The Real Kali Uchis?” in The Fader
- “Inside the Brutal Baby Lollipops Murder Case that Shook South Florida” in Rolling Stone
- “Puerto Rico’s Last Political Prisoner” in The Guardian
- “Rescue From Dead Dog Beach” in The Guardian
Jaquira Díaz Books
- Ordinary Girls 2019
Jaquira Díaz Awards and honors
- 2017 Pushcart Prize for “Beach City”
- 2017 Reynolds Price Short Fiction Award for “Carraízo
- 2016 The Essay Prize Finalist for “Ordinary Girls”
- 2014 Summer Literary Seminars Award in Nonfiction for “Ordinary Girls”
- 2012 Pushcart Prize for “Section 8”
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Who is Díaz?
Jaquira Díaz is an American Puerto Rican fiction writer, essayist, journalist, cultural critic, and contributor to many notable periodicals.
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She resides at Miami Beach, Florida U.S.A.
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She is still alive and in good health.
Jaquira Díaz Social Media
https://twitter.com/jaquiradiaz
https://www.instagram.com/p/BqsqnU4HfWE/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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