Junot Díaz is the author of
Drown,
This Is How You Lose Her,
Islandborn, and
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. He is a MacArthur Fellow, and his non-fiction appears in
The Boston Review and the
New York Times. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey, Díaz is a graduate of Rutgers University and Cornell University. At CMS/W, he regularly teaches Critical Worldbuilding.
