Jennine Capó Crucet is a Miami-born Cuban writer. Her debut story collection, How to Leave Hialeah, won the 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Prize, the 2010 John Gardner Book Award, the 2010 Devil's Kitchen Reading Award, and was named a Best Book of the Year by both the Miami Herald and the Latinidad List. The book is currently available from the University of Iowa Press and at bookstores everywhere.

Jennine is the recipient of the John Winthrop Prize & Residency for Emerging Writers, scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and her work has been a finalist for both the Chicano/Latino Literary Prize and the Missouri Review Editor’s Prize. Her stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Epoch, the Southern Review, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, and other magazines. Her book reviews appear in the L Magazine, a New York City bi-weekly. She currently lives in Los Angeles, where she works for the One Voice Scholars Program as a counselor to first-generation college-bound high school seniors in South Central and Downtown LA.

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