Pablo Medina is a Cuban-born writer and translator. He has written sixteen books of poetry, fiction, and memoir including Cubop City Blues, TheCigar Roller, and Exiled Memories: A Cuban Childhood. He has translated the work of Virgilio Piñera and Federico García Lorca and has been awarded grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, The Cintas Foundation, and others. He is currently professor of fiction, poetry, and translation at Emerson College in Boston.