She’s also an Associate Professor at University of Pittsburgh, where she teaches in the MFA program. Cruz is the founder and editor-in-chief of the award-winning literary journal Aster(ix). She’s published shorter works in the Paris Review, VQR, Callaloo, Gulf Coast, and other journals. She is fifteen, married to a man twice her age by her mother toward what she hopes is a better life than the one she has left behind in Los Guayacanes.Ĭruz is the author of two other novels, Soledad and Let It Rain Coffee, and the recipient of numerous fellowships and residencies including the Lighthouse Fellowship, Siena Art Institute, and the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Fellowship. Ana, the main character, is part of the first wave of Dominicans to arrive to New York City. It’s also the year the US occupied the Dominican Republic. Angie Cruz’s Dominicana is a coming-of-age novel set in 1965, a tumultuous year, at the heart of the civil rights movement.
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