MCC Daily Tribune

Jaquira Diaz on Campus This Thursday and Friday!

Please join us THIS THURSDAY at 7 PM in the Warshof Conference Center, Flynn Campus Center (Monroe B) and/or THIS FRIDAY at 12 PM in 8-200 for visiting writer Jaquira Diaz. This is what THE NEW YORK TIMES wrote about Diaz's new memoir, ORDINARY GIRLS:

"This brutally honest coming-of-age story is a painful yet illuminating memoir, a testament to resilience in the face of scarcity, a broken family, substance abuse, sexual assault, mental illness, suicide and violence. It takes courage to write a book like "Ordinary Girls," and Díaz does not shy away from her deepest, most troubling truths. She jumps into the writing of her story and gets her hands dirty, her heart broken, her spirit bruised."

Jaquira Díaz is the author of ORDINARY GIRLS, a memoir, and I AM DELIBERATE, a novel, both forthcoming from Algonquin Books. She's the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, and fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, Kenyon Review, and The MacDowell Colony. Her work appears in The Best American Essays, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The FADER, Longreads, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and others. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's MFA Program in Creative Writing and is a Consulting Editor at the Kenyon Review.

Please contact Maria Brandt at mbrandt@monroecc.edu with any questions.

We hope to see you AND YOUR STUDENTS later this week.

Maria Brandt
English/Philosophy
02/25/2020