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Angie Cruz

She // Her // Hers

Writer

New York, New York

A light-skinned woman with curly dark hair tied in a low ponytail sits outside. She has brown eyes and is wearing gold hoops and a black v-neck long sleeved shirt. Her right hand is slightly tucked in her shirt.

Photo by Erika Morillo.

In my work I engage the silences, the omissions within official and unofficial archives, and am drawn to strategies for speaking inside of the silences that emerge from the trauma of migration, as well as the related individual and community traumas of domestic violence and debt accrual.”

Angie Cruz is a New York-born Dominican-American novelist and editor. Her most recent novel How Not To Drown in A Glass of Water (2022) was a finalist for the 2024 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, shortlisted for The Aspen Words Literary Prize, and chosen for The New York Times’ list of 100 Notable Books of 2022. Her novel Dominicana was the inaugural book pick for Good Morning America’s book club and shortlisted for The Women’s Prize, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction, a RUSA Notable book, and the winner of the ALA/YALSA Alex Award in fiction. Cruz is the author of two other novels, Soledad and Let It Rain Coffee and has 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). She divides her time between Pittsburgh, New York, and Turin.

Donor -This award was generously supported by The Heinz Endowments / Opportunity Fund.

This artist page was last updated on: 01.30.2025

A book cover with pink text on a green background that reads "How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz" The bottom of the cover features an illustration of a woman with brown skin and short black hair lounging on a yellow seat, her arms resting on either side of the top of the cushion. The illustration is graphic and gestural, more of an outline than a fully rendered illustration.

How Not To Drown in A Glass of Water, a novel by Angie Cruz.

Photo courtesy of Flatiron books.

A book cover with text that reads "Dominicana by Angie Cruz." Below the text is an illustration of a woman with brown skin and long curly black hair peering outside her apartment window. The illustration is composed of brightly colored graphic shapes.

Dominicana, a novel by Angie Cruz.

Photo courtesy of Flatiron books.