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Jennine's writing has appeared in Ploughshares, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Epoch, the Southern Review, the Northwest Review, and Pindeldyboz, among others. Her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Best New American Voices series. She’s the recipient of scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference as well as the John Winthrop Prize.

Here you'll find links to some of Jennine's published work, fiction and otherwise, as well as some fun stuff, like snippets of her novel-in-progress.

Resurrection, or: The Story Behind the Failure of the 2003 Radio Salsa 98.1 Semi-Annual Cuban and/or Puerto Rican Heritage Festival
 from How to Leave Hialeah

Published in Ploughshares
Fall 2006 , Issue #100, Volume 32/2&3

Noche Buena
from How to Leave Hialeah

Published in The Northwest Review
 2006, Volume 44, Number 2

 

 

Jennine's debut short story collection - click to preorder
“Jennine Capó Crucet is an electrifying new talent—she’s funny, she’s smart, and she knows how to tell great stories. I fell in love with this terrific collection from the first paragraph, and I was still smitten on the last page.”
—Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep &American Wife, both New York Times Notable Books

 

“In this engrossing collection…Crucet details vividly the daily struggle that leads Cubans to prize their heritage above much else, but also illuminates a powerful need to escape the past.”
—Publishers Weekly

“What a joy it is to read the work of a writer who has a powerful voice, a sense of humor, and a feeling for local histories. Jennine Capó Crucet’s stories start with Cuban American neighborhoods and cultures and then sail off into the direction of the great themes: love, familial bonds, aging, and death. And resurrection. This is a wonderful collection.”
—Charles Baxter, Feast of Love, National Book Award finalist

 

“This is definitely a young writer to watch for, sassy, smart, with an unerring ear for a community’s voices, its losses, its over-the-top telenovela extravagances, and its poignant struggles to understand itself in a new land. I was glad not to have to leave Hialeah right away, but to stay long enough to hear its many stories as told by a gifted writer like Jennine Capó Crucet.”
—Julia Alvarez, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents & In the Time of the Butterflies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click on the book covers to read Jennine's reviews, published in The L Magazine, a New York City print weekly.

The Dud Avocado - JCC review in the L Mag

Visit Jennine's blog, which isn't updated too often (or at all) these days because she's working feverishly on a novel. Still, though, it's fun-ish.

And twitter is fun, right? And it counts as writing, right? Follow Jennine at www.twitter.com/crucet.

There used to be a link to Jennine's ridiculous wedding website here. Then she stopped paying the bill for the domain name. Archived pages from that—the good ones with pictures of parrots and skunks on them—coming soon. Maybe.

Keeping Up With the Jones
An interview with Pulitzer Prize winning writer Edward P. Jones, author of Lost in The City, The Known World, and All Aunt Hagar's Children

Published in Dislocate
2005, Issue 1