6 Contemporary Cuban Authors You Should Know
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Nancy Morejón is a critic, poet, and translator from Cuba. Born in 1944, she is the author of more than twenty volumes of poetry, such as Persona (2010) and Peñalver 51 (2010), as well as the poetry collection Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing (1985). She has also translated the work of Caribbean writers such as Edouard Glissant, Aimé Césaire, and René Depestre, among others. A recipient of the Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Award and the Cuban National Literary Award, Morejón currently serves as the Director of Revista Unión and as an advisor at Casa de las Américas. |
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Grisel Y. Acosta is a poet and associate professor at the City University of New York — Bronx Community College. She has a Ph.D. in English/Latinx literature from the University of Texas at San Antonio and her work has been featured on publications such as The Baffler, Best American Poetry, Voices de la Luna, Kweli Journal, The Acentos Review, Paterson Literary Review, Pembroke Magazine, and elsewhere. Acosta is the editor of Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity (2019) and the author of a debut poetry collection, Things to Pack on the Way to Everywhere, forthcoming from Get Fresh Books in April 2021. |
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Carmen Maria Machado is a Cuban-American writer. She is the author of the award-winning short story collection Her Body and Other Parties (2017), the best-selling memoir In the Dream House (2019), and the graphic novel The Low, Low Woods (2020), illustrated by artist DaNi. Her Body was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, and the Kirkus Prize, and winner of the Bard Fiction Prize and the Shirley Jackson Award. A Guggenheim Fellow, Machado is the Abrams Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Philadelphia with her wife. |
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Dan Vera is an American poet, literary historian, and watercolorist of Cuban descent. A CantoMundo and Macondo Writing Fellow, he is the author of two books of poetry: Speaking Wiri Wiri (2013) and The Space Between Our Danger and Delight (2008), and the co-editor of Imaniman: Poets Writing In The Anzaldúan Borderlands (2016). Vera’s work has appeared in journals such as Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Poet Lore, and Notre Dame Review, as well as in the anthologies Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology (2018) and The Queer South: LGBTQ Writers on the American South (2014), among others. He lives in Washington, DC. |
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Soleida Ríos is an award-winning writer from Santiago de Cuba. She has authored more than thirteen books, including El libro roto (1995), Libro cero (1998), El libro de los sueños (1999), Secadero (2009), Aquí pongamos un silencio (2010), Antes del mediodía: Memoria del sueño (2011), and A wa nilé (2017), and is co-editor of the anthology The Oval Portrait: Contemporary Cuban Women Writers and Artists (2018). Her English-language debut, The Dirty Text, was published in 2018. Ríos’s accolades include two Literary Critic’s Awards, the Nicolás Guillén National Poetry Award, and a major literary award from the Alejo Carpentier Foundation. |
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Kyle Carrero Lopez was born to Cuban parents in New Jersey. He is the author of the forthcoming chapbook Muscle Memory, winner of the 2021 PANK Little Book contest. He co-founded LEGACY, a Brooklyn-based production collective by and for Black queer artists. Kyle’s recent poems are published in POETRY, The Nation, Bear Review, Frontier Poetry, and elsewhere. |
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1/28/2021
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