Jennine Capó Crucet is a Cuban-American novelist, and short story writer.

Life

Capó Crucet attended

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where she received a

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in English and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies. She also graduated from the

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with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. She is currently an Associate Professor of English and Ethnic Studies at the

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. Her work has appeared in ''

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''. Capó Crucet is best known for her short story collection ''How to Leave Hialeah'' which focuses on her experiences as a

Cuban-American Cuban Americans ( es, cubanoestadounidenses or ''cubanoamericanos'') are Americans who trace their cultural heritage to Cuba regardless of phenotype or ethnic origin. The word may refer to someone born in the United States of Cubans, Cuban desc ...

woman growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Miami. For this collection she won the John Gardner Book Award. Her second book, ''Make Your Home Among Strangers'', was released in 2015. This book became the subject of controversy when students at

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burned a copy on a grill after a question and answer session by Crucet. The book burned at Georgia Southern University was ''My Time Among The Whites''.

Awards

O. Henry Award The O. Henry Award is an annual American award given to short stories of exceptional merit. The award is named after the American short-story writer O. Henry. The ''PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories'' is an annual collection of the year's twenty best ...

*Iowa Short Fiction Prize *John Gardner Book Award

Publications

*''How to Leave Hialeah'' - (short story collection) University of Iowa Press, 2009. *''Make Your Home Among Strangers'' - (novel) St. Martin's Press, 2015. *'' My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education'' - Picador, 2019.

References

External links

* * Living people University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty American women short story writers Year of birth missing (living people) American women novelists 21st-century American short story writers 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American women writers American writers of Cuban descent Cornell University alumni American women academics {{US-story-writer-stub