Angie Cruz

Angie Cruz

Angie Cruz's novel, DOMINICANA is the inaugural bookpick for GMA book club, and the Wordup Uptown Reads selection for 2019. It was also longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie award in excellence in fiction for 2019. It was named most anticipated/ best book in 2019 by Time, Newsweek, People, Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Esquire. Cruz is the author of two other novels, Soledad and Let It Rain Coffee. She's the founder and Editor-in-chief of the award winning literary journal, Aster(ix)and an Associate professor at University of Pittsburgh where she teaches in the MFA program. She splits her time between Pittsburgh, New York, and Turin.

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Angie Cruz Interviews Laura Pegram about Kweli journal

  And who will join this standing up and the ones who stood without sweet…

Aster(ix) Newsletter | February 2017

      IN 1975 CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN performed “Interior Scroll”: she entered a performance space, undressed,…

Aster(ix) Newsletter | January 2017

    Dear Aster(ix) Readers, In 2003, visual artist Regina José Galindo walked from the…

What We Love – A conversation between Angie Cruz, Madhu H. Kaza and M.L. Vargas

Madhu H. Kaza: When I think of the idea behind “What We Love” I think…

Microeditorial: PEN International Passes Copyright Manifesto

Jennifer Clement, President of PEN International and Zoe Rodriguez (lawyer, and Cultural Fund and Writer…

Atravesando

This anthology of fiction and poetry embraces the themes of breaking through and crossing over.…

Radha Blank Speaks Troof, Otherwise What’s The Fkn Point.

I first saw you perform at Yari Yari back in 1996. Since, I’ve witnessed your…

Fast Close: In Conversation with Jennifer Clement

I met Jennifer Clement for the first time in 2011 while traveling with the Iowa…

Our 2015 Pushcart Nominations

ROGELIA JAMES IS NO PENDEJA by Catalina Bartlett “Dad let me stew in the holding…

Artist As Master Remixer: Lucia Hierro in conversation with Angie Cruz

A  few months ago visual artist, Lucia Hierro wrote to me via fb: Hi Angie.…