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Listed as:

Fiction Writer

Public address:

US

Email:

mail@jcapocrucet.com

Bio:

Author of MAKE YOUR HOME AMONG STRANGERS, a novel (St. Martin's Press, August 2015) and HOW TO LEAVE HIALEAH, an Iowa Prize winning story collection (University of Iowa Press). Picador Professor of Literature at the University of Leipzig (Germany) for Fall/Winter 2013-14. Currently an assistant professor of English and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Spanish

Born in:

Miami

Raised in:

Miami, FL

Florida

Website:

https://www.jcapocrucet.com [2]

Prizes won:

Long-listed for 2015 Center for Fiction Debut Novel Prize, PEN/O. Henry Prize,
Bread Loaf Fellow,
<i>Miami Herald</i> Best Book of the Year,
John Gardner Book Award,
Iowa Short Fiction Award,
Devil's Kitchen Reading Award,
Winthrop Prize for Emerging Writers,
UC Irvine Chicano/Latino Literary Award,
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Work-Study Scholar

Identifies as:

Cuban American

Feminist

Hispanic

Latino/Latina/Latinx

Prefers to work with:

Any

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