Nassau Community College to Host NY Times Notable Novelist Angie Cruz
Event is sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the NCC Foundation
February 4, Garden City, NY – Acclaimed novelist Angie Cruz will read from her latest novel, How Not To Drown In A Glass Of Water, on Wednesday, February 12 at 11:00 a.m. in the A. Holly Patterson Library, 2nd Floor, on the Nassau Community College Campus. The event is sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the NCC Foundation. It will also be available on Zoom.
As part of the Creative Writing Program’s Lit, Live! reading series, Cruz will share excerpts from her novel, discuss the writing life, and answer questions from the audience. How Not To Drown in A Glass of Water (2022) was a finalist for the 2024 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, shortlisted for The Aspen Words Literary Prize, winner of the Gold Medal, Latino Book Award/The Isabel Allende Most Inspirational Book Award, and chosen for The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2022. Her novel Dominicana was the inaugural book pick for GMA book club and shortlisted for The Women’s Prize, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction, a RUSA Notable book and the winner of the ALA/YALSA Alex Award in fiction. Cruz is the author of two other novels, Soledad and Let It Rain Coffee and has published shorter works in The Paris Review, VQR, Callaloo, Gulf Coast and other journals. She's the founder and Editor-in-chief of the award-winning literary journal, Aster(ix). She divides her time between Pittsburgh, New York and Turin.
Sponsored by The Creative Writing Program, Nassau Community College’s Lit, Live! reading series brings to campus renowned writers from around the world. Among those who have read at NCC are Joyce Carol Oates, Charles Simic, Jamaica Kincaid, Yusef Komunyakaa, Tobias Wolff, Mark Doty, Marilyn Hacker, Nahid Rachlin, and Michael Thomas.
These writers present their work in readings that are free and open to the public, conduct master classes and Q&A sessions for creative writing students, and meet with faculty groups.
Lit, Live! also sends writers from Nassau Community College out into the Long Island community to give lectures, readings and/or workshops at libraries, local public schools, art galleries, museums, or any other Long Island organization that would like to include literary activities in its offerings. The Faculty Profiles page contains biographies, samples of work, and contact information, or, if you would like more general information, contact Dr. Sabrina Davis or Dr. Gina Sipley at CreativeWritingProgram@ncc.edu.
Event Details:
Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Time: 11:00 am –12:15pm
Location: A. Holly Paterson Library, 2nd Floor, Nassau Community College
Admission: Free/Open to the Public
About Nassau Community College
Nassau Community College, a campus of the State University of New York, provides a
comprehensive public college experience designed to prepare students to start, and
continue, their successful journeys through higher education. Serving 14,000 full-time,
part-time and continuing education students, NCC awards 67 associate degrees and 25
certificates. Through on-campus and online offerings, the college educates local and
international students, and boasts 168,000 alumni. Situated on 225 acres in Garden
City, Long Island, the college grounds reside in historic Nassau County, one of the
most desirable locations to live in the United States and an epicenter for business
and careers. Since 1959, NCC has earned a nationwide reputation for academic excellence
and ease of transferability to four-year schools.
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