Jaquira Díaz

Jaquira Díaz is the author of Ordinary Girls, winner of a Whiting Award, a Florida Book Awards Gold Medal, a Lambda Literary Awards finalist, an American Booksellers Association Indies Introduce Selection, an Indie Next Pick, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, and finalist for the Discover Prize. Díaz has written for The Atlantic, The Guardian, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and elsewhere. Her debut novel, I Am Deliberate, is forthcoming from Algonquin Books. She teaches at Columbia University.