Jaquira Díaz is the author of Ordinary Girls, a Summer/Fall 2019 Indies Introduce Selection, a Fall 2019 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, and a November 2019 Indie Next Pick. She worked on the book at MacDowell in 2017. Her work has been published in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Fader, and T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and included in The Best American Essays 2016. She splits her time between Montréal and Miami Beach with her partner, the writer Lars Horn.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction, Literature – nonfiction
Jaquira Díaz
Discipline:
Literature – fiction, Literature – nonfiction
Region: Gambier, OH
MacDowell Fellowships: 2013, 2017
More:
www.jaquiradiaz.com
Studios
Heyward
Jaquira Díaz worked in the Heyward studio.
The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…