Wendy Guerra is a Cuban poet and novelist who has contributed to different magazines and newspapers, including the Spanish daily El Mundo and the Miami Herald, where she currently writes about arts and literature. Her first collection of poetry, Platea a oscuras, earned her a prize from the University of Havana when she was just seventeen, and she won the Bruguera Prize. Although her novels have been translated into several languages, only one of them has been published in Cuba. She has always lived in Havana.