Jennine Capó Crucet

Biography

Jennine Capó Crucet is a Miami-born Cuban writer. Her debut story collection, How to Leave Hialeah, won the 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Prize, the 2010 John Gardner Book Award, and the 2010 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award. The title story won a PEN/O. Henry Prize. Her stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Epoch, and Southern Review.

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FICTION / Summer 2011

What Some Other Guys Can Call the Byron Story: Miami, 1996

By Jennine Capó Crucet

For twenty dollars, this dude named Byron promised to beat the crap out of you. That’s pretty much what the flyer said, and the flyer was all over the neighborhood. The first one we noticed was up high on the half-dead palm tree in front of...