Angie Cruz

Angie Cruz is the author of the novels How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water, Soledad, Let It Rain Coffee, and Dominicana, the inaugural GMA Book Club pick. Cruz is the recipient of numerous fellowships, residencies and awards, including the USA Fellowship, the Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers, the ALA/YALSA Alex Award, and the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, and has been a finalist for the Women’s Prize, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence, and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. She is the founder and editor in chief of the award-winning literary journal Aster(ix) and teaches at Columbia University.