Angie Cruz
BiographyAngie Cruz was conceived in Dominican Republic and born in 1972 in New York City's Washington Heights. She continued to travel to and from, every summer, until she was sixteen years old. She went to La Guardia High School concentrating on Visual Arts and by default decided to follow a path in Fashion Design at Fashion Institute of Technology. During those four years of college, she worked as a salesperson, manager and then window designer in an upscale Madison Ave. boutique. In 1993, four of her children stories were featured on BET's Story Porch. Soon after, she gave up her fashionista lifestyle to become a full-time college student at SUNY Binghamton where her love affair with literature and history began. She graduated from the NYU, MFA program in 1999. Her passion for literature fueled her desire to be active in community. In 1997, she co-founded WILL: Women In Literature & Letters with Adelina Anthony and Marta Lucia, an organization that produced readings, workshops, and a conference using literature as a tool to build community and transform society. In 2000, WILL was put on hold due to lack of resources and the women's desire to make more time to write. Angie Cruz has contributed shorter works to numerous periodicals including Latina Magazine, Callaloo and New York Times. She has won awards for her writing and/or activist work such as The New York Foundation of The Arts Fellowship, Barbara Deming Award, Yaddo, and The Camargo Fellowship. She published two novels, Soledad and Let It Rain Coffee. She currently is teaching creative writing at Texas A&M University and is working on her third novel. She also jumpstarted BookupTexas through the National Book Foundation and is the coordinator of Brazos Valley Reads.
EDUCATIONNew York University
MFA, Fiction (1999) SUNY Binghamton University, N.Y. B.A. Major: English Literature and Rhetoric (1996) PUBLICATIONSLet It Rain Coffee, Simon & Schuster, (2005)
Soledad, Simon & Schuster (2001) Recently published SHORT FICTION/ CREATIVE NONFICTION "First Addresses Seared in Memory." New York Times, The City Weekly Desk, Sunday, September 3, 2006 “Until We Meet Again,” Brown Sugar: Secret Desires, ed. Carol Taylor, Simon & Schuster (2005) “The Story Behind the Story,” Latinastyle Magazine, July 2005 http://www.latinastyle.com/currentissue/v11-4/author.html “On The Verge,” Border-Line Personalities: A New Generation of Latinas Dish on Sex, Sass, and Cultural Shifting, eds. Michelle Herrera Mulligan and Robyn Moreno, Rayo, Harper Collins (2005) AWARDS AND RESIDENCIESNALAC, Fund for the Arts The Camargo Foundation Fellowship New York Foundation Of The Arts Fellowship in Fiction Van Lier Literary Fellowship/Bronx Council of the Arts National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Grant Georgia Shreve Fellowship National Hispanic Foundation Scholarship Chapter One Award/ Bronx Writers’ Center La Napoule Foundation, France The Ledig Foundation The Macdowell Colony Yaddo Fundacion Valparaiso Residency Millay Colony For the Arts Residency Constance Salstonstall Residency |
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