Achy Obejas

Born: 01-01-1956

Status: Ignored

Books: 0 / 48 total (1 not ignored) — 0 eBooks, 0 AudioBooks

Added by: Contributor to Immigrant Voices - 21st Century Voices

Added: 2026-08-29

Last updated: 2026-09-21 12:31

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About

Achy Obejas is the award-winning author of Days of Awe, Memory Mambo and We Came all the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? Her poems, stories and essays have appeared in dozens of anthologies, including Akashic's Chicago Noir. A long time contributor to the Chicago Tribune, she was part of the 2001 investigative team that earned a Pulitzer Prize for the series, “Gateway to Gridlock.” Her articles have appeared in Vanity Fair, Village Voice, The Nation, Playboy, and MS, among others. Currently, she is a music contributor to the Washington Post and the Sor Juana Writer in Residence at DePaul University in Chicago. She was born in Havana