Jennine Capó Crucet debut story collection, “How To Leave Hialeah,” won the 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Prize. It will be published in September by the University of Iowa Press.
Curtis Sittenfeld, who judged the Iowa Short Fiction Prize, says “Jennine Capó Crucet is an electrifying new talent — she’s funny, she’s smart, and she knows how to tell great stories. I fell in love with this terrific collection from the first paragraph, and I was still smitten on the last page.”
Charles Baxter added that: “What a joy it is to read the work of a writer who has a powerful voice, a sense of humor, and a feeling for local histories. Jennine Capó Crucet’s stories start with Cuban American neighborhoods and cultures and then sail off into the direction of the great themes: love, familial bonds, aging, and death. And resurrection. This is a wonderful collection.”
Her writing has appeared in Ploughshares, the Northwest Review and Pindeldyboz, and her stories are forthcoming in Epoch, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, and the Southern Review.
She lives in Los Angeles. Visit her online at www.jcapocrucet.com.
