MCC Visiting Writers Series presents Pablo Medina - October 9th, 2024

Pablo Medina is the author of many published books, including poetry, fiction, memoir, and works in translation, most recently the poetry collection Sea of Broken Mirrors (Hanging Loose Press, 2024) and the novel The Cuban Comedy (Unnamed Press, 2019).
Born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in New York City, he is also the author of the memoir Exiled Memories: A Cuban Childhood (U. of Texas Press, 1990). Also known for his work in translation, he translated The Weight of the Island: Selected Poems of Virgilio Piñera (Diálogos, 2014) and Federico García Lorca’s Poet in New York (Grove/Atlantic, 2008) with poet Mark Statman. His work has appeared in The Boston Review, Triquarterly, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and The New Yorker.
His prose and poetry have been translated into various languages, among them Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Arabic. He has won numerous honors, awards, and fellowships, including from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is Professor Emeritus of Fiction, Translation, and Poetry at Emerson College and is on the faculty at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.
For more information, see the Academy of
American Poets page for Pablo Medina and the Creative Writing at Middlesex Community College ( creativewritin...)