Writer and Professor Jaquira Diaz in conversation with Professor Chloé Cooper Jones.
Jaquira Díaz is the author of Ordinary Girls: A Memoir, winner of a Whiting Award, a Florida Book Awards Gold Medal, a Lambda Literary Awards finalist, an American Booksellers Association Indies Introduce Selection, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, an Indie Next Pick, a Library Reads pick, and finalist for the B&N Discover Prize. The recipient of a Letras Boricuas Fellowship, the Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction, and fellowships from MacDowell, the Kenyon Review, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and the Black Mountain Institute at UNLV, Díaz has written for The Atlantic, The Guardian, Time Magazine, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and elsewhere. Her debut novel, This Is the Only Kingdom was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and is forthcoming from Algonquin Books.
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About the Nonfiction Dialogues
The Nonfiction Dialogues is an evening literary series in which Professor Chloé Cooper Jones talks to distinguished nonfiction writers about their work and careers.
