This Is What Happened in Our Other Life
By Achy Obejas
2007
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Poetry. Gay & Lesbian Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. At last, the first collection of poems from the Pulitzer Prize and Lambda Literary Award winning Cuban-American author Achy Obejas THISIS WHAT HAPPENED IN OUR OTHER LIFE charts the complexities of identity as the author explores her relationship to her lovers, her roots, her past, herself. Achy Obejas is the author of the novels Days of Awe (Ballantine) and Memory Mambo (Cleis) and the short story collection We Came All The Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? (Cleis). She is also the editor and translator of HAVANA NOIR (Akashic). She received an NEA Fellowship in Poetry in 1986.
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Achy Obejas
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Achy Obejas is the award-winning author of Days of Awe, Memory Mambo and We Came all the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? Her poems, stories and essays have appeared in dozens of anthologies, including Akashic's Chicago Noir. A long time contributor to the Chicago Tribune, she was part of the 2001 investigative team that earned a Pulitzer Prize for the series, “Gateway to Gridlock.” Her articles have appeared in Vanity Fair, Village Voice, The Nation, Playboy, and MS, among others. Currently, she is a music contributor to the Washington Post and the Sor Juana Writer in Residence at DePaul University in Chicago. She was born in Havana
