Daniel Shank Cruz
Daniel Shank Cruz (they/multitudes) is a queer disabled boricua who grew up in New York City and Lancaster, Pa. They have an MFA in creative nonfiction from Hunter College of the City University of New York and a Ph.D. in English from Northern Illinois University. Multitudes is the author of Queering Mennonite Literature: Archives, Activism, and the Search for Community (Penn State University Press, 2019) and Ethics for Apocalyptic Times: Theapoetics, Autotheory, and Mennonite Literature (Penn State University Press, forthcoming November 2023). Their writing has also appeared in venues such as Modern Haiku, Religion & Literature, Your Impossible Voice, and numerous essay collections.
Contributed Articles
July 12, 2023
Issue 2023, vol. 77
Review of The White Mosque: A Memoir by Sofia Samatar (Catapult, 2022) Sofia Samatar recalls that when the story of the apocalyptic Mennonite prophet Claas Epp Jr. first captured her […]
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June 27, 2022
Issue 2022, vol. 76
Review of Wind Farm: Landscape with Stories and Towers by Jeff Gundy (Dos Madres Press, 2021) Wind Farm, Jeff Gundy’s 13th full-length book, is his first return to memoir since […]
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