Pablo Medina lived in Havana, Cuba, the first twelve years of his life then moved with his family to New York City, where his culture shock was softened by snow and countless visits to the New York Public Library. He is the author of four previous collections of poetry, three novels, a memoir, and a book of translations, and his work has appeared in periodicals and anthologies in the United States and abroad. Medina has received several awards for his work, among them grants from the Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He lives in New York City with his wife Beth and is on the writing faculties of the New School University and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.