found: Pushcart Prize XXXVIII best of the small presses, c2013:("Section 8," Jaquira Díaz) page 614 (Jaquira Díaz studied at the University of South Florida where she also taught fiction)
found: jaquiradiaz.com, accessed 30 May 2016:(Born in Puerto Rico and raised in Miami Beach, Jaquira Díaz is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize)
found: thesunmagazine.org, accessed 30 May 2016:(Jaquira Díaz is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and an NEA writing fellowship. She lives in Miami Beach, Florida, where she hosts Sunday Salon Miami, a reading series featuring local and international literary voices.)