Writer Angie Cruz to Visit SHSU

The Departments of English and Foreign Languages will host a reading by Angie Cruz on Tuesday, October 28, at noon in Austin Hall.

Angie Cruz is the author of the novels Soledad and Let It Rain Coffee, which were both published by Simon & Schuster. She graduated from the NYU MFA program and has contributed numerous fiction and non-fiction works to The New York Times, Latina Magazine, and Callaloo. She was awarded the Camargo Fellowship, New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship, and the Barbara Deming Fund for Women. She recently adapted Soledad into a film that has been optioned by Nueva York productions.  She currently splits her time between New York; Turin, Italy; and College Station, Texas, where she works as an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M.