In her four published novels to date, author Angie Cruz has examined themes of belonging and displacement extensively through the lens of the working class female immigrant experience.  Her most recent book, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water, was a Neustadt International Prize for Literature finalist, shortlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize,  and named one of The New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2022.

Angie’s other novels include Soledad, Let it Rain Coffee, and the Women’s Prize for Fiction-shortlisted Dominicana.  She also authored the children’s book Angélica and la Güira.  She is an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh and the founder and Editor-in-Chief of literary journal Aster(ix).  Just this year, she was awarded a USA Fellowship and the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature.

She will use her nthspace Torino residency to work on her latest novel, Bella, Ciao, about a long-distance friendship between two women that parallels and illuminates the underbelly of Italy’s tumultuous present—vexed with labour history, the ghost of dictatorship, and a growing resentment of immigrants.

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