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About Jaquira Díaz

Jaquira Díaz is a Puerto Rican fiction writer, essayist, journalist, cultural critic, and professor. She is the author of Ordinary Girls, which received a Whiting Award in Nonfiction, a Florida Book Awards Gold Medal, was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Prize Finalist. She has written for The Atlantic, Time (magazine), The Best American Essays, Tin House, The Sun, The Fader, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Longreads, . She was an editor at the Kenyon Review and a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 2022, she held the Mina Hohenberg Darden Chair in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University's MFA program and a Pabst Endowed Chair for Master Writers at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. She has taught creative writing at Colorado State University's MFA program, Randolph College's low-residency MFA program, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Kenyon College. Díaz lives in New York and is an assistant professor of writing at Columbia University.

Jaquira Díaz writes about Family, Families, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Dysfunctional Families, Dysfunctional families, City and town life, and Childhood and youth. Their best-known work is Ordinary Girls.

On FindMyTBR we track 3 books by Jaquira Díaz, 3 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including Ordinary Girls : A Memoir, Ordinary Girls \ Muchachas ordinarias, and This Is the Only Kingdom. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.