Junot Diaz was born and raised in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic. He now teaches creative writing at Syracuse University. His story collection, Drown, was published in 1996, and translation rights have been sold in fifteen countries. The collection was also published here in the US in Spanish and re-titled Negocios.
Diaz's stories have appeared in Story, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Time Out, Glimmer Train, African Voices, Best American Fiction '96, and Best American Fiction '97. He is also the winner of a Pushcart Prize XXII '97 and received a Eugene McDermott Award in 1998. He is currently working on a novel to be published by Riverhead Books.
He was recently featured in Newsweek's cover story on the mainstreaming of Latin culture and was also named one of the 20 Writers for the 21st Century by The New Yorker.
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