Pablo Medina

Pablo Medina is a Cuban American poet and novelist and a professor in the Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College and director of its MFA program.

Biography Medina was born in Havana, Cuba, and emigrated to New York City in 1960. He received an M.A. degree from Georgetown University.

Pork Rind and Cuban Songs (1975), Medina's first collection of poems, was the first publication by a Cuban author written directly from the English language.

Awards and honors President, Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Board of Directors, 2005-2006 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in Bellagio, Italy, June 2004 Distinguished Visitor at the New School for Social Research, 1995-1996 Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction, 1993-1994 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in Poetry, 1991 Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington, George Washington University, 1990-1991 Oscar B. Cintas Foundation Fellowship Grant in Poetry and Fiction, 1979

Works The Cuban Comedy. The Unnamed Press, 2019. Island History: Poems (poems). Hanging Loose, 2015. The Weight of the Island (poems in translation). Diálogos Books, 2015. Calle Habana (poems). PhotoStroud, 2013. Cubop City Blues (novel). Grove/Atlantic, Inc, 2012. The Man Who Wrote on Water (poems). Hanging Loose Press, 2011. Poet in New York/Poeta en Nueva York (poems in translation, with Mark Statman). Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 2008. The Cigar Roller (novel). Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 2005; Spanish Ed., 2005; paperback, 2006. Points of Balance/Puntos de apoyo (poems). Four Way Books, 2005. Puntos de apoyo (poems in Spanish). Editorial Betania, 2002. The Return of Felix Nogara (novel). Persea Books, 2000; paperback, 2002. Exiled Memories: A Cuban Childhood (memoir). University of Texas Press, 1990; revised paperback ed., Persea Books, 2002. The Floating Island (poems). White Pine Press, 1999. Arabic Ed., 2008. The Marks of Birth (novel). Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994; German Ed., 1995; French Ed., 1998; paperback, Persea Books, 2003. Arching into the Afterlife (poems). Bilingual Review/Press, 1991. Everyone Will Have to Listen (poems in translation, with C. Hospital). Linden Lane Press, 1990 Pork Rind and Cuban Songs (poems). Nuclassics and Science, 1975