Ana Menéndez, M.F.A., is associate professor in the Department of English at Florida International University. She previously served as director of the Humanities Edge Program at FIU.
Ms. Menéndez has published five books of fiction: The Apartment (2023), Adios, Happy Homeland! (2011), The Last War (2009), Loving Che (2003), and In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd (2001), whose title story won a Pushcart Prize. She has worked as a journalist in the United States and abroad, lastly as a prize-winning columnist for The Miami Herald. As a reporter and columnist, she covered Cuba, Haiti, Kashmir, Afghanistan, and India. Her work has appeared in Vogue, Bomb Magazine, The New York Times, and Tin House, and in several anthologies, including Exile in Global Literature and Culture: Homes Found and Lost (2020); Let's Hear Their Voices: Cuban American Writers of the Second Generation (2019); and The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (2010).
Ms. Menéndez is a former Fulbright scholar at the American University in Cairo. She has also lived in India, Turkey, Slovakia, and the Netherlands, where she designed a creative writing minor at Maastricht University in 2011. For the past twenty years, she has taught at various writing conferences and programs including, most recently, Bread Loaf and the M.F.A. Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
Ms. Menéndez holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from New York University and a B.A. in English from Florida International University.