¡Hola! Thanks so much for stopping in. I hope you’ll poke around and learn more about my passion: celebrating the power and resilience of immigrant families.
That’s what I set out to do with my award-winning memoir, Property of the Revolution: From a Cuban Barrio to a New Hampshire Mill Town (She Writes Press/Simon and Schuster Distribution). It’s an intimate, personal story about home, family, politics, and courage.
I was nearly six when the revolution my working-class family had initially supported ended up landing on our heads. The viejos—elders—in our family were forced to break apart our large extended family to save our small young one. My memoir brings you on that journey loss and reinvention and shows you why we found the best of ourselves and America in a snowy New Hampshire town.
I grew up in that town, Nashua, graduated from Smith College and, after enjoying a career in software consulting, began my writing career. My writing about Cuba and Cuban Americans has appeared in the The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and elsewhere. My commentaries and storytelling have aired on national broadcasts of NPR’s All Things Considered and PBS’s Stories from the Stage.
Property of the Revolution, my first book, won early recognition before publication as a finalist in the 2023 Restless Book’s New Immigrant Writing Prize and the 2022 Cintas Creative Writing Fellowship. Since its April 2025 publication, the memoir has won first place in a wide range of international writing competitions, including the 2026 International Book Publishers Awards (Memoir), the Discovery Book Awards (Nonfiction overall), and the Indie Author Project Prize (Memoir). Finalist honors have included the 2025 Forward Indies, Chanticleer Journey, and the Readers’ Favorite awards.
The best prize is when readers tell me that Property of the Revolution took them to a place they’d never been and didn’t want to leave: the home of a loving, brave, multigenerational immigrant family. They tell me they’ve gained a deeper understanding of the immigrant and refugee experience. That’s the dream I had for the book, the gift I wanted to share with my readers.
After forty years in the Boston area, I recently moved to southern New Hampshire with my family and two Havanese pups, Luna and Beny Moré. When I’m not writing, I love birdwatching, floating on Lake Winnipesaukee, and digging in my garden.
