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Angie 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 working on the screenplay for Soledad, optioned by Nueva York Productions and working on her third novel.

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Angie Cruz

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Books from Angie Cruz

Dominicana

Soledad

Let It Rain Coffee

Fifteen Candles: 15 Tales of Taffeta, Hairspray, Drunk Uncles, and other Quinceanera Stories

How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water: A Novel

What We Love: An Aster(ix) Anthology, Fall 2016

Gulf Coast: A Journal of Fine Arts (Winter/Spring 2017)

Dirty Laundry: An Aster(ix) Anthology, Fall 2017

Best of Kweli: An Aster(ix) Anthology, Spring 2017

EPS (Employment Permit System) Korean Test / GRAMMAR: International Korean Language Test / Prepapartion Guide For Foreign Workers (EPS (Employment Permit ... Study For Foreign Workers Book 1)

[in]security 2.1 (vandal)

[walls] 1.1 (vandal Book 1)

Fourteen Days

Fourteen Days