Achy Obejas

Achy Obejas is the author of The Boy Kingdom/El reino de los varones, forthcoming in September, and of Boomerang/Bumerán, both bilingual collections of poetry written in a mostly gender-free English and Spanish. She also authored The Tower of the Antilles, which was a PEN/Faulkner finalist, among other honors. Her novels include Ruins and Days of Awe, which was a Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year. Her poetry chapbook, This is What Happened in Our Other Life, was both a critical hit and a national best-seller. As a translator, Havana-born Achy has worked with Wendy Guerra, Rita Indiana, Junot Díaz and Megan Maxwell, among others. A recipient of a USA Artists fellowship, an NEA and a Cintas fellowship, and other awards, she lives in the San Francisco Bay area. She is an occasional contributor to the New York Times.