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    María Matienzo

    María Matienzo is a writer and independent journalist in Havana, where she has worked for the independent sites Havana Times, Diario de Cuba, Revista Voces, ADNCuba, Hypermedia Magazine, Diario de las Américas and in the newspaper El Tiempo in Colombia. She published a selection of reports, Apocalypse Havana (americans are coming), with the Spanish publisher, Sarmancanda.

    Editorial Hurón Azul has published two of her stories in the anthology Alamar I love you, and a novel this year, Elizabeth aún juega a las muñecas. The Mexican magazine, Papeles de la Mancuspia published a story; another was published by Otro Lunes, in Germany, another story; and in Cuba, among other published stories, “Mientras recuerdo al Secretario del Partido” was published by Abril; an essay on Cuentos Fríos by Virgilio Piñera was fragmented in three national magazines: Matanzas, El mar y la montana, and El caimán barbudo. She is currently the director of the PIO TAI children’s literature collection at the Hurón Azul publishing house and a journalist for the independent media outlet, Cubanet.










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