Achy Obejas (born 1956 in Havana, Cuba) is a writer and journalist living in Chicago, Illinois. After leaving Cuba at the age of six, she lived in Michigan City, Indiana until she moved to Chicago in 1979. Since 1991, she has been a journalist with the Chicago Tribune, working as a culture writer. She is currently the Springer Lecturer in Creative Writing (2003-2005) at the University of Chicago, as well as an advisor for the online prose magazine, Otium.

Selected works

• Days of Awe (2001)
• Memory Mambo (1996)
• We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? (1994)

External links

• Interview with En La Vida

1956 births | Lesbian writers | Living people | American journalists