NOVELS
King of Cuba, Scribner, forthcoming May 2013
The Lady Matador’s Hotel, Scribner 2010
A Handbook to Luck, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007
Monkey Hunting, Alfred A. Knopf, 2003
The Agüero Sisters, Alfred A. Knopf, 1997
Dreaming in Cuban, Alfred A. Knopf, 1992

EDITED VOLUMES
Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and
Chicano/a Literature (Editor), Vintage, 2006
Cubanísimo: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Cuban Literature
(Editor), Vintage, 2003

YOUNG READERS
Dreams of Significant Girls, Simon & Schuster, 2011
I Wanna Be Your Shoebox, Simon & Schuster, 2008
The Dog Who Loved the Moon, Simon & Schuster, 2008

POETRY
The Lesser Tragedy of Death, Akashic Books, 2010

THEATER
From the Black Root, 2008 (staged reading in Hartford, CT)

NON-FICTION
Cars of Cuba, Harry N. Abrams, 1995

HONORS/AWARDS
Northern California Book Award, 2008
Frontizera Award, Border Book Festival, 2008
National Endowment for the Arts, Literature Fellowship, 2004
Finalist, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 1998
The Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, 1997
Cintas Fellowship, 1997, 1992
Whiting Writers’ Award, 1996
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1995
Finalist, National Book Award, 1992
Hodder Fellow, Princeton University, 1992-93

TEACHING
Professor and University Chair in Creative Writing
Texas State University-San Marcos, 2012-present
- Graduate Fiction Workshops
   
Professor of Creative Writing, Texas Tech University, 2010-2012
-Graduate and Undergraduate Fiction Workshops
-Directed Masters theses and Ph.D. dissertations

Visiting Professor, University of Miami, Fall 2011
- Undergraduate and Graduate Fiction Workshops

Visiting Professor, Michener Center for Writers,
University of Texas-Austin, Fall 2010
- Literature and Politics, Fiction Workshops (graduate courses)

Visiting Professor and Black Mountain Institute Teaching Fellow
in Creative Writing, University of Nevada-Las Vegas,
2009-2010
- Fiction Workshop, Children’s Literature
(undergraduate courses)
- Fiction Workshop, Literature and Politics (graduate courses)
- Directed MFA Theses

Distinguished Visiting Writer, Mills College, 2005-2009
- Beginning Fiction, Advanced Fiction (undergraduate
courses)
- Craft of Fiction, The Novel, Fiction Workshop, Literature
and Politics (graduate courses)
- Directed MFA Theses

Distinguished Writer in Residence, St. Mary’s College, Fall 2006
Visiting Associate Professor, University of California-Los Angeles,
2003-04, 2005-06
Visiting Associate Professor, University of California-Riverside,
2001-03
Madeline Sheehan Blair Writer in Residence, Hunter College,
Fall 2000
Writer in Residence, Mills College, Fall 1998
Writer in Residence, University of California, Irvine, Spring 1995
Writer in Residence, University of California, Santa Barbara,
Spring 1994

LITERARY- RELATED
Founder/Artistic Director, Las Dos Brujas Writers’ Workshops, Present
www.lasdosbrujas.com
Artistic Director, Centrum Writers’ Exchange, 2008-2010
• Responsible for developing year-round programming of
literary conferences, readings, and week-long summer
workshops
• Recent conferences include “Literature of Witness”
with Carolyn Forché (May 2009), and summer
workshops with Mark Doty, Denise Chávez, Chris
Abani, Martín Espada, Kim Barnes, and many others

CONTRIBUTOR/OTHER (Select)
“Goyo Herrera,” Dialogo 15:1, Fall 2012
“Tropical Disturbances,” Chautauqua, Spring 2012
“Interview,” Generations, Spring 2012
“First Theft,” “Wedding,” The Más Tequila Review, Winter 2011
“Tapestry,” “What You Believe,” “Deseo,” “Repuesta,” “What Tía
Cuca Said,” “Bienvenido,” “Boy,” “The Twist,”
“Kindergarten,” “Easy Out,” “Queens,” “First Time,”
Black Renaissance Noire, Spring 2010
The Secret Miracle: The Novelists’ Handbook, Henry Holt and
Company, 2010
“Twenty Nine Palms,” TriQuarterly, Spring 2009
“Spell,” “Brownstone,” “Namesake,” “What You Dream,” Review
78 (U.S. Latino Literature and Arts), Spring 2009
“La Reina de los Tigres,” Ediciones Vigía, Matanzas, Cuba, 2008
Our Journeys, Our Stories: Portraits of Latino Achievement,
Smithsonian Institution, 2008
One Island, Many Voices: Conversations with Cuban-American
Writers, The University of Arizona Press, 2008
“WhatYou Believe,” “What You Dream #2,” Semillas de Achiote,
Achiote Press, Spring 2008
Contemporary Literature. Vol. 48, No. 2, University of Wisconsin
Press, Summer 2007
Contributing Editor, The Americas Issue, BOMB, Winter 2007
Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial
Experience, W.W. Norton, 2006
Literature and Arts of the Americas, Americas Society, 2006
Introduction, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo
Neruda, Penguin Classics, 2004
Cuba In Mind, Vintage, 2004
Forever Sisters, Atria Books, 2004
Cuba On the Verge, Bulfinch Press, 2003
Cuba, Rizzoli, 2003
“Falling Sky/La Caída del Cielo,” Ediciones Vigía (Cuba), 2003
Cuba: A Traveler’s Literary Companion, Whereabouts Press, 2002
Voiceovers: Translation and Latin American Literature,
SUNY, 2002
Ellas Hablan de la Isla, Ediciones Unión (Cuba), 2002
Travelers’ Tales Cuba, Travelers’ Tales Inc., 2001
The Latino Reader: An American Literary Tradition from 1542
to the Present, Mariner Books, 1997
Little Havana Blues, A Cuban-American Literature Anthology,
Arte Público, 1996
The Archipelago: New Caribbean Writing, Conjunctions, 1996
Havana, Chronicle Books, 1996
A Question of Balance: Artists and Writers on Motherhood,
Papier-Maché Press, 1995
Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba, University of Michigan, 1995
Currents from the Dancing River: Contemporary Latino Fiction,
Non-Fiction, and Poetry, Harcourt Brace, 1994
Iguana Dreams, HarperCollins, 1992