Junot Díaz is a contemporary Dominican-American writer whose collection of short stories featured in the book Drown became an overnight literary sensation.
The stories in Drown are: "Ysrael", "Fiesta, 1980", "Aurora", "Drown", "Boyfriend", "Edison, New Jersey", "How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie", "No Face", "Negocios".
Diaz has read twice for NPR's This American Life— "How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie"[1] in 1998 and "Edison, New Jersey"[2] in 1997.
Diaz is the first Dominican-born man to become a major writer in the United States. He moved to the United States with his parents at age six, settling in New Jersey. The New Yorker magazine placed him on a list of the 20 top writers for the 21st century. His work has also appeared in Story, The Paris Review, and in the anthologies Best American Short Stories and African Voices.
Diaz graduated from Cedar Ridge High School in Old Bridge, New Jersey in 1987. He then went on to complete his under-graduate studies at Rutgers University located in New Jersey. He earned his MFA degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1995. He is currently a creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a portion of which was once excerpted as a short story in the New Yorker, is slated for release in September of 2007.
Junot Diaz and Nefertiti Jaquez who most recently was a news reporter at WFOR-TV, CBS4 are first cousins.
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Drown (Riverhead, New York, NY, 1997. ISBN 1573220418
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Hi, I'm the co-founder of Slice, a new print literary magazine debuting this month. Our first issue features an exclusive interview with Junot Diaz about his beginnings as a writer -- check out www.slicemagazine.org to learn more about us.
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