For instance, he has written the introduction or foreword to Beacon Best of 2001: Great Writing by Women and Men of All Colors and Cultures (2001), Latinos, Inc.: The Marketing and Making of a People (2012), Dismantle: An Anthology of Writing from the VONA/ Voices Writing Workshop (2014), and Letters to Palestine: Writers Respond to War and Occupation (2015). He has also been featured several times (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2013) in, and recently edited (2016), the renowned The Best American Short Stories collection as well as in a number of American literary anthologies. His short-story “Monstro” (2012), a sci-fi Afrofuturist tale, is believed to constitute part of his second and developing novel. Top journals have published several of his short stories and essays, such as “Homecoming, with Turtle” (2004), “Wildwood” (2007), “Apocalypse: What Disasters Reveal” (2011), “MFA vs POC” (2014), and “The Mongoose and the Émigré” (2017). To date, Díaz has published his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (“ TBWLOW,” 2007) two highly acclaimed collections of short stories, Drown (1997) and This Is How You Lose Her (2013) and the children’s book Islandborn (2018). As if energized by civil disobedience, Díaz channels world-systems theorists such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Aníbal Quijano, and Michel Foucault to philosophically meditate on the most urgent contemporary concerns, including climate change, the rise of white supremacy, homophobia, sexism, colonialism, neoimperialism, and even the looming specter of zombies (metaphorically or otherwise). He has most famously condemned the Dominican Sentencia that strips Haitian Dominicans of their birthrights a seething criticism that prompted the Dominican Republic to revoke his Order of Merit. It is fair to say that the tropes of his writing extend into his activism, as Díaz has served on the steering committee for Freedom University and remains vocal against reiterations of settler colonialism.
In other words, his writing registers both “mean streets” and academic erudition and alternates between local structures of racial inequality and world-systems theory, always infused with a healthy dose of profanity and humor. Díaz paints the world through a Borgesian Aleph lens: Multiple realities all at once that reach far across the globe. He has risen to prominence against painstaking odds, translating his ontology into a mastery of genre and aesthetics. 1968) is a polymath of many talents: A winner of the Pulitzer Prize and McArthur Genius awards, a human rights activist, a journalist, an MIT Creative Writing professor, a public intellectual, and a troubadour of the African diaspora. The renowned Dominican American writer Junot Díaz (b.
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