Eva SkrandeEva Skrande was born in Havana, Cuba and, at the age of five, immigrated with her family to Miami, Florida. She has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature from the Univrsity of Houston Creative Writing Program. She is the author of My Mother's Cuba (River City Publishing) and a chapbook, The Gates of the Somnambulist (Jeanne Duval Editions). Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, Alaska Quarterly, The Cortland Review, and Ploughshares, among others. Skrande has received fellowships from the University of Houston, the Inprint Foundation, and the Houston Arts Alliance. She has taught for Writers in the Schools, the University of Houston, Houston Community College, and currently teaches Creative Writing at Meyerland Performing and Visual Arts Middle School. She lives in Houston with her husband and daughter. Read More Read Less