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Pablo Medina is a Cuban American poet and novelist, Professor in the Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College and Director of its MFA Program.

Biography

Medina was born in Havana, Cuba and emigrated to New York City in 1960. He received an M.A. degree from Georgetown University.

Pork Rind and Cuban Songs (1975), Medina’s first collection of poems, was the first publication by a Cuban author written directly from the English language. His memoir, Exiled Memories (1990), was the first of several autobiographical accounts to be published from the generation of Cubans who emigrated to the United States after the Cuban Revolution. Medina chronicles early memories from his childhood in Cuba as well as his arrival in New York City; the memoir is a personal reflection on his own self-identity, irreconcilably divided between Cuban and American culture. Among his recent publications are a collection of translated poems by Virgilio Piñera, The Weight of the Island: Selected Poems of Virgilio Piñera (2015) and a collection of original poems, Island History: Poems (2015), The Cuban Comedy (2019).

Awards and honors

• President, Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Board of Directors, 2005-2006
• Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in Bellagio, Italy, June 2004
• Distinguished Visitor at the New School for Social Research, 1995-1996
• Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction, 1993-1994
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in Poetry, 1991
• Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington, George Washington University, 1990-1991
• Oscar B. Cintas Foundation Fellowship Grant in Poetry and Fiction, 1979

Works

• The Cuban Comedy. The Unnamed Press, 2019.
• Island History: Poems (poems). Hanging Loose, 2015.
• The Weight of the Island (poems in translation). Diálogos Books, 2015.
• Calle Habana (poems). PhotoStroud, 2013.
• Cubop City Blues (novel). Grove/Atlantic, Inc, 2012.
• The Man Who Wrote on Water (poems). Hanging Loose Press, 2011.
• Poet in New York/Poeta en Nueva York (poems in translation, with Mark Statman). Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 2008.
• The Cigar Roller (novel). Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 2005; Spanish Ed., 2005; paperback, 2006.
• Points of Balance/Puntos de apoyo (poems). Four Way Books, 2005.
• Puntos de apoyo (poems in Spanish). Editorial Betania, 2002.
• The Return of Felix Nogara (novel). Persea Books, 2000; paperback, 2002.
• Exiled Memories: A Cuban Childhood (memoir). University of Texas Press, 1990; revised paperback ed., Persea Books, 2002.
• The Floating Island (poems). White Pine Press, 1999. Arabic Ed., 2008.
• The Marks of Birth (novel). Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994; German Ed., 1995; French Ed., 1998; paperback, Persea Books, 2003.
• Arching into the Afterlife (poems). Bilingual Review/Press, 1991.
• Everyone Will Have to Listen (poems in translation, with C. Hospital). Linden Lane Press, 1990
• Pork Rind and Cuban Songs (poems). Nuclassics and Science, 1975

See also

• Cuban American literature
• List of Cuban-American writers

References

1. ^ Emerson College Faculty. "Pablo Medina".
2. Gonzáles, Rigoberto (25 September 2012). "The Cuban Novels of Pablo Medina". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
3. ^ Alvarez-Borland, Isabel (1998). Cuban-American Literature of Exile: From Person to Persona. Charlotteville: University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-1813-6.
4. ^ "Pablo Medina – Lavender Ink". lavenderink.org.
5. "Pablo Medina - Writer". pablomedina.org. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
6. "Association of Writers & Writing Programs". Association of Writers & Writing Programs. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
7. "Rockefeller Foundation". Rockefeller Foundation. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
8. "New School for Social Research". New School for Social Research. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
9. "Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest". Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
10. "National Endowment for the Arts". Retrieved 16 April 2015.
11. "George Washington Columbian College of Arts & Sciences". George Washington Columbian College of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
12. "Oscar B. Cintas Foundation". Oscar B. Cintas Foundation. Retrieved 16 April 2015.

External links

• Author website: pablomedina.org
• Robert Kralovec interview with Pablo Medina at Slice Magazine (2013)
• Derek Alger interview with Pablo Medina at Pif Magazine (2012)
• Interview with Pablo Medina at Redivider (2008)

• Living people
• 20th-century Cuban poets
• 20th-century Cuban novelists
• American writers of Cuban descent
• 21st-century Cuban poets
• Cuban male poets
• 20th-century male writers
• 21st-century male writers
• 21st-century Cuban novelists
• Cuban male novelists