What Does Our New Relationship With Cuba Mean for Cuban Americans?
The writer moved to the U.S. over 50 years ago, never expecting the two nations to reestablish ties. Nor how she, and other émigrés, might feel about it.
Achy Obejas
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Born in Havana, Cuba, Achy Obejas is a fiction writer, poet, translator, and journalist. She is the author of five books, including three novels: DAYS OF AWE, MEMORY MAMBO, and RUINS. She is translated Junot Diaz's Pulitzer Prize–winning THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO into Spanish. She is a monthly columnist at In These Times; the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellowship, and has won a team Pulitzer Prize for the series “Gateway to Gridlock” while at the Chicago Tribune, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in poetry, the Studs Terkel Journalism Award, a Cintas Foundation Fellowship, and a USA Ford Fellowship. She is currently the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College. Follow her @achylandia