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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Nonproprietary Forms: Diana Khoi Nguyen and Angie Cruz in Conversation

In Fall 2023 I had the pleasure to speak to Diana Khoi Nguyen about her…

Firelei Báez on Generosity and Freedom in Art

I met Firelei Báez at The Andy Warhol Museum for over an hour. She was…

On the Silos of New York City: Angie Cruz and Stephanie Jimenez in Conversation

Angie Cruz meets with Stephanie Jimenez, author of They Could Have Named Her Anything to…

Movements, Activism and Writing YA with Elizabeth Acevedo, Jennifer de Leon, Lilliam Rivera and Natalia Sylvester

On August 28, 2020, Natalia Sylvester, Elizabeth Acevedo, Jennifer de Leon, and Lilliam Rivera joined…

We cannot afford to be silent: VIRAMONTES AND GAITSKILL in conversation

On November 11th 2016 Mary Gaitskill and Helena Viramontes shared a stage for the first…

On the Immigrant Experience and Where’s Home: A Conversation with Angie Cruz and Rajia Hassib

A conversation about the immigrant experience and the concept of home with Angie Cruz and…

AWP Panel: Aster(ix) Five Years Later

AWP Panel: Aster(ix) Five Year Later, A Conversation with Angie Cruz, Patricia Engel, Stephanie Elizondo…

On Vinyl, This Love: A Conversation with Carol C.

I met up with Carol C at Esther & Carol’s on Broome Street, NYC over…

A Conversation with Laura Gómez

On a windy evening I met Laura Gómez in NYC under the Flatiron building where…

From A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas

Drawing from the hemispheric context of the Americas, A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art…