Angie
Cruz’s latest novel, Let It Rain Coffee, will be released by Simon
& Schuster just in time for this reading, and we welcome this passionate Dominicana
here at last. Cruz went from working for a NYC cashmere company, to writing children’s
stories for TV, to studies at SUNY Binghamton, where she fell in love with literature
and committed herself to social change. In 1997, while in the MFA program at NYU,
she co-founded WILL: Women In Literature & Letters, a women-of-color-centered
collective dedicated to the transformation of society via readings and writing
workshops. She divides her time between NYC, Dominican Republic and Europe and
is currently at work on her third novel and the screenplay for Soledad,
her first novel.
Nelly
Rosario was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Brooklyn, New York.
She received a BA in engineering from MIT and an MFA from Columbia University,
where she currently is an Adjunct Professor. She has received numerous awards,
including a 1999 Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Fellowship, The Bronx Writers' Center
Van Lier Literary Fellowship for 1999-2000, two National Arts Club Writing Fellowships,
the 1997 Hurston/Wright Award in Fiction, and the 1988 National Teachers in English
Writing Award. She was named “Writer on the Verge” by the Village Voice Literary
Supplement in 2001. Her debut novel Song of the Water Saints, which
traces the lives of three generations of Dominican women, won a PEN Open Book
Award in 2002. She is currently at work on her second novel.
Please note that Ernesto Quinonez was originally scheduled to read on this date but had to cancel.
photo of Angie Cruz by Sandra Bermundez
All readings include a question & answer period and a reception with books by the author(s) for sale.
Suggested
Donation: $5 ($3 for HVWC members and those under age 18)
The readings at the HVWC are made possible in part by a grant from the Bydale Foundation; the David G. Taft Foundation; the Orchard Foundation; and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; and by Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government, corporations and individuals.