Jaquira Díaz is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, and fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and the MacDowell Colony. Her work appears in The Best American Essays 2016, Rolling Stone, and Brevity, among other publications. She is a 2016-18 Kenyon Review Fellow.
Mar/Apr 2020
The Unexpected
The morning after Britain’s general election, as Boris Johnson is elected prime minister, I work at an antique schoolhouse desk in a Victorian house in the Midlands. At the old […]
The Unexpected
Mar/Apr 2020
[Introduction]
The morning after Britain’s general election, as Boris Johnson is elected prime minister, I work at an antique schoolhouse desk in a Victorian house in the Midlands. At the old […]
Nonfiction
Nov/Dec 2015
Ordinary Girls
We started talking about dying long before the first woman jumped. What our parents would do once we were gone. What Mr. Nuñez, the assistant principal at Nautilus Middle School, […]
Fiction
Winter 2014
Ghosts
Three weeks before we pull the body from the river, I find Kofi waiting for me behind our camp. I spot him as I hike through the palms toward the […]
Resistance, Change, Survival
You Do Not Belong Here
A few years ago, during a summer in Puerto Rico, I went back to my old neighborhood, El Caserío Padre Rivera. When I was a girl, El Caserío, one of […]
In Memoriam
In Memoriam: Judith Ortíz Cofer
We lost Judith Ortíz Cofer just before the New Year, on December 30, 2016. She will be remembered by many of us as a trailblazer and advocate for women writers […]
Jaquira Díaz
Jaquira Díaz is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and an NEA Fellowship to the Hambidge Center for the Arts. […]
Jaquira Díaz
Jaquira Díaz is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and an NEA Fellowship to the Hambidge Center for the […]