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Jennine Capó Crucet

Jennine Capó Crucet is the author of the novel Make Your Home Among Strangers, winner of the International Latino Book Award for Best Latino-themed Fiction and a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice. Her latest book, Never Imagined Me Here, is forthcoming in January, 2019. Her story collection How to Leave Hialeah won the Iowa Short Fiction Prize, the John Gardner Book Award and the Devil's Kitchen Reading Award, and was named a Best Book of the Year by the Miami Herald, the Miami New Times, and the Latinidad List. A PEN/O. Henry Prize winner and a Bread Loaf Fellow, her writing has appeared in Guernica, Ploughshares, Epoch, The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, and other magazines. Originally from Miami, she is an assistant professor of English and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

This event sponsored by Illuminations: The Chancellor's Arts and Culture Initiative in partnership with the UCI First Gen initiative.

BOOK CLUB: Through a special partnership with the UCI Libraries, we are pleased to co-sponsor a book club on Make Your Home Among Strangers, led by Professor Anita Casavantes-Bradford, Tuesday, April 30, 5:30-7:00pm, Orange County and South East Asian Archives, ground floor of Library Gateway. Book Club RSVP. 

Jennine Capó Crucet website