Diaz, author of The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and This Is How You Lose Her, has withdrawn from the Sydney Writers’ Festival in the aftermath of the accusations. “Writer Zinzi Clemmons said [an] incident happened when she was a 26-year-old graduate student. She had invited Diaz to speak at a workshop, but Diaz ‘used it as an opportunity to corner and forcibly kiss me,’ Clemmons wrote on Twitter. Other female writers have since come forward, accusing Diaz of mistreatment and misogynistic verbal abuse.”