Women Writers Initiative

Cuba

Birth date: 1952
Birthplace: Cuba
Education:
Professional Career: Montero was the runner up for the Sonrisa Prize for erotic fiction in 2000 for Ultima noche que pasé contigo.

Works

• Púrpura profundo. Barcelona, Spain: Tusquets, 2000.
• Ultima noche que pasé contigo. Barcelona, Spain: Tusquets, 2000.
• Como un mensajero tuyo. Barcelona, Spain: Tusquets, 1998.
• Tú, la oscuridad, Barcelona. Spain: Tusquets, 1995.
• Del rojo de su sombra. Barcelona, Spain: Tusquets, 1992.
• La trenza de la hermosa luna. Barcelona, Spain: Anagrama, 1987.
• Veintitrés y una tortuga. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 1981.

GARCIA, Cristina

Birth Date: 1959
Birthplace: Havana, Cuba
Education: She received her B.A. from Barnard College in 1979, and her M.A. from Johns Hopkins University in 1981.
Professional Career: Garcia is a journalist and author. She was a reporter and researcher for Time from 1983-85 and a correspondent from 1985-90. She was also bureau chief in Miami, FL from 1987-88. Garcia was the National Book Award finalist for the National Book Foundation in 1992 for Dreaming in Cuban and received the Hodder fellowship from Princeton University in 1992-93 and the Cintas fellowship from 1992-93. She also won the Whiting Writers Award in 1996.

Works

• The Aguero Sisters. New York: Knopf, 1997.
• Dreaming in Cuban. New York: Knopf, 1992.

Valdés, Zoé

Birth Date: 1959
Birthplace: Havana, Cuba
Education: attended university in Cuba
Professional career: Writer for Revisto de cine Cubano and an assistant director. Awared the Planeta Prize in 1996 for Te di la vida entera.

Works

• Milagro en Miami. Barcelona, Spain: Planeta, 2001.
• Cuerdas para el lince. Barcelona, Spain: Editorial Lumen, 1999.
• Traficantes de belleza. Barcelona, Spain: Planeta, 1998.
• Café Nostalgia. Barcelona, Spain: Planeta, 1997.
• Te di la vida entera. Barcelona, Spain: Planeta, 1996.
• Sangre azul. Havana, Cuba: Editorial Letras Cubanas, 1993.
• Todo para una sombra. Barcelona, Spain: Taifa, 1986.
• Respuestas para vivir. Havana, Cuba: Editorial Letras Cubanas, 1986.