Achy Obejas
Achy Obejas is the author of the forthcoming The Boy Kingdom/El reino de los varones, a bilingual collection of prose poems that offers a meditation on queer motherhood and raising sons. She also authored Boomerang/Bumerán, a bilingual collection of poetry written in a mostly gender-free English and Spanish that addresses immigration, displacement, love and activism; the story collection The Tower of the Antilles, which was a PEN/Faulkner finalist, among other honors; and the novel Days of Awe, which was a Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year. As a translator, Havana-born Achy has worked with Rita Indiana, Junot Díaz and Megan Maxwell, among others. She currently pens the West Coast renters column for the New York Times. A recipient of a USA Artists fellowship, an NEA and a Cintas fellowship, among other awards, she lives in the San Francisco Bay area.
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