Grand Valley Writers Series presents Angie Cruz

Award-winning storyteller Angie Cruz will be the next author featured during the 2014 Grand Valley Writers Series.

The event takes place Monday, November 17 from 7:30-8:45 p.m. in room 2215/16 in the Kirkhof Center.

Angie Cruz is the author of two novels, “Soledad,” which she has adapted into a screenplay, and “Let It Rain Coffee,” which was a finalist in 2007 for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She has published short fiction and essays in Callaloo, The New York Times, Kweli, Phatitude, South Central Review and elsewhere.

Cruz is an assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, and the editor of the activist literary journal, Aster(ix). She is of Dominican descent and often writes about being Latin American in the United States, as well as women’s issues and themes of exile and displacement. Cruz is currently finishing her third novel, “In Search of Caridad.”

For more information about the Grand Valley Writers Series, contact Oindrila Mukherjee at (616) 331-8034 or [email protected].