Cristina Henriquez
Cristina Henriquez
Cristina Henríquez is an American author best known for her 2014 novel The Book of Unknown Americans...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
born came chemical dad met mom mostly raised study university
My dad is from Panama; he came to the U.S. in 1971. He came to study chemical engineering at the University of Delaware. He thought he would go back, and then he met my mom here. I was born and mostly raised in Delaware.
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I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women's literature.
human people policies
Immigration is a system and a set of policies. And immigrants are the people behind those policies and behind that system, and the human stories.
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I didn't know until high school that I was interested in writing in any real way. But there was this boy that I had a crush on, and I used to tell him all the time what I felt about him. Finally he gave me a blank journal and said to write it all down - and it didn't take me very long to realize how much I loved writing.
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I used to say, read as much as you can. Now I say, read the best that you can, the stories that resonate with you, the books that are important to you. Try to read, not only as a reader, but also as a writer, to deconstruct how the author is telling his or her story.
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My mom is a translator for the school district in Delaware. She'd hear these different stories from working with families there. Those stories stuck with me.