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Jennine Capó Crucet was born to Cuban parents and raised in Miami, Florida. Her highly-acclaimed debut story collection - named a Best Book of the Year by both the MIAMI HERALD and the MIAMI NEW TIMES - won the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the 2010 John Gardner Award, and the 2010 Devil's Kitchen Reading Award in Prose. She's been a finalist for the MISSOURI REVIEW Editor's Prize and the UC Irvine Latino Literary Award. In addition to writing, she's currently a college counselor at a nonprofit community-based organization that works with teens in South Central and downtown LA. A graduate of Cornell University, she divides her time between Miami and Los Angeles.
Jennine is the recipient of the Winthrop Prize & Residency for Emerging Writers and scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her stories have appeared in magazines such as PLOUGHSHARES, EPOCH, GULF COAST, the LOS ANGELES REVIEW, the SOUTHERN REVIEW, and others, and her book reviews have appeared in the L MAGAZINE, a New York City bi-weekly.
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