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Carla Diaz

Carla Diaz is a fiction writer from New York City. She received her MFA from Vanderbilt University, where she served as nonfiction editor for Nashville Review. Her work has been supported by scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

Sept/Oct 2019

An Effort Toward Wholeness

By Carla Diaz

Re: Greetings A family friend—my surrogate Grandfather—sends me an e-mail. Inbox (1). Who am I kidding? Inbox (48). The Gap is always having a sale; Ancestry.com is making new discoveries […]