Cruz earned an MA in German Language and Literature from Rutgers University and is currently pursuing a PhD at the European Graduate School where her research focuses on Hegel and madness. In 2023 the following texts are forthcoming: Steady Diet of Nothing, a novella, and To the Woods, a collection of poetry, both with Four Way Books. In addition, a nonfiction work, Becoming Nothing: On Negative Freedom, will be published by Repeater Books. Cruz lives in Berlin, Germany.