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. She’s been awarded fellowships or scholarships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Key West Literary Seminar, Bread Loaf, and the MacDowell Colony. Her work was noted in Best American Essays, and appears in Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Sun, The Southern Review, Five Chapters, the Pushcart Prize anthology, and elsewhere. She lives and writes in Miami Beach.