Angie Cruz

Angie Cruz is a Dominican-American novelist and editor, founder of the literary magazine Aster(ix), and a professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Her novel How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water — a series of job-interview monologues by a middle-aged Dominican woman in New York — won wide acclaim as a portrait of a life told aloud.

Cruz's earlier novels Soledad and Let It Rain Coffee established her as a leading voice of the Dominican diaspora. She writes, translate the "interstitial" urban community of Washington Heights with humour and precise social detail, and her work circulates important debates in Latinx and migration literature.