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 B&N Discover Prize. She has written for The Atlantic, The Guardian, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and elsewhere. She lives in New York and teaches writing at Columbia University.