Angie Cruz

Angie Cruz is a New York–born Dominican novelist whose work centers immigrant women’s lives, voice as craft, and the political weight of the everyday. Her novels—Soledad (2001), Let It Rain Coffee (2005), Dominicana (2019), and How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water (2022)—have been translated widely and recognized with some of the field’s most coveted honors.

She is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Aster(ix) Journal, a literary publication committed to women writers of the Global South. She teaches in the writing program at Columbia University and has held fellowships and residencies that include a 2025 USA Fellowship and the 2025 John Dos Passos Prize for Literature.

For the 2027 Convention, Cruz will deliver the Common Reader Keynote—a craft-forward conversation tied directly to this year’s theme of technê: the deep knowing of one’s craft.