Cruz shared with HipLatina her initial thoughts, “ What? Garcia? Alvarez? I went in and found out she was Dominican, forget about it,” she says. She currently is working on the screenplay for Soledad, optioned by Nueva York Productions and working on her third novel.As she made her way passed Barnes and Noble on 183rd st in Manhattan, writer Angie Cruz she took a quick glance at the window and realized an interesting title: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez. She published two novels, Soledad and Let It Rain Coffee. She has won awards for her writing and/or activist work such as The New York Foundation of The Arts Fellowship, Barbara Deming Award, Yaddo, and The Camargo Fellowship. Angie Cruz has contributed shorter works to numerous periodicals including Latina Magazine, Callaloo and New York Times. In 2000, WILL was put on hold due to lack of resources and the women's desire to make more time to write. In 1997, she co-founded WILL: Women In Literature & Letters with Adelina Anthony and Marta Lucia, an organization that produced readings, workshops, and a conference using literature as a tool to build community and transform society. Her passion for literature fueled her desire to be active in community. She graduated from the NYU, MFA program in 1999. Soon after, she gave up her fashionista lifestyle to become a full-time college student at SUNY Binghamton where her love affair with literature and history began. In 1993, four of her children stories were featured on BET's Story Porch. During those four years of college, she worked as a salesperson, manager and then window designer in an upscale Madison Ave.

She went to La Guardia High School concentrating on Visual Arts and by default decided to follow a path in Fashion Design at Fashion Institute of Technology. She continued to travel to and from, every summer, until she was sixteen years old. She graduated from the NYU, MFA Angie Cruz was conceived in Dominican Republic and born in 1972 in New York City's Washington Heights.

Angie Cruz was conceived in Dominican Republic and born in 1972 in New York City's Washington Heights.

Dominicana by Angie Cruz