Jennine Capó Crucet is the author of How To Leave Hialeah, published by University of Iowa Press and the winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. Her short story “Relapsing, Remitting” was published in Crazyhorse literary journal, whose editors awarded her The Winthrop Prize, Crazyhorse's Emerging Writer & Residency Prize. She was born to Cuban exile parents and raised in Miami. Her writing has appeared in Ploughshares, the Southern Review, the Northwest Review, and other magazines. She is the recipient of a Bread Loaf Scholarship and has been a finalist for the Missouri Review Editors’ Prize and the University of California, Irvine, Chicano/Latino Literary Prize. A graduate of Cornell University, she currently lives and writes in Los Angeles.
The Winthrop Prize, Crazyhorse literary journal's Emerging Writer & Residency Prize, is funded by a generous gift from Mr. John Winthrop. It awards a $1000 honorarium to an emerging writer (a writer with one book or less of creative work) who is selected by the editors from recent issues of Crazyhorse. The writer is invited to the College of Charleston to read from his or her
writing, give a craft lecture on writing, and meet individually with advanced creative-writing students.
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