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ANGIE CRUZ

October 6, 2022 @ 5:30 pm

Free

Angie Cruz is a novelist and editor. Her fourth novel, How Not To Drown in A Glass of Water is forthcoming Fall 2022. Her novel, Dominicana was the inaugural book pick for GMA book club and chosen as the 2019/2020 Wordup Uptown Reads. It was shortlisted for The Women’s Prize, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction, The Aspen Words Literary Prize, a RUSA Notable book and the winner of the ALA/YALSA Alex Award in fiction. 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 and the recipient of numerous fellowships and residencies including the Lighthouse Fellowship, Siena Art Institute, and the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Fellowship. She’s published shorter works in The Paris Review, VQR, Callaloo, Gulf Coast and other journals. She’s the founder and Editor-in-chief of the award winning literary journal, Aster(ix) and is currently an Associate Professor at University of Pittsburgh. She divides her time between Pittsburgh, New York and Turin.

Angie Cruz is presented in collaboration with the University of Iowa Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing.

Details

Date:
October 6, 2022
Time:
5:30 pm
Cost:
Free
Event Category:
Website:
https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/icbf/

Organizer

City of Literature
Phone:
319-887-6100
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Venue

Prairie Lights Books
15 S. Dubuque St.
Iowa City, IA 52240 United States
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