I have always been an observer, an explorer and a storyteller.

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As a young boy and inspired by old Hollywood movies such as Robin Hood or Prince Valiant, I penned extraordinary tales of heroes rescuing loved ones in distress. 

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But most of all, I cherished writing about the summers at my maternal grandparents' farm where no one bullied me, and no man ever desired me. 

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Alone there, surrounded by Cuba’s beautiful countryside, away from the chaos of my Havana home, I would discover my perseverance and strength.

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My own personal story is quite typical, arriving in New York City at seventeen after a two-year exile in Spain without any money, not knowing the language and lacking the skills to step into a world unlike anything that I had ever known. 

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Nonetheless, and like immigrants always do, I found a way to assimilate, making it to college and building a professional and personal life for myself.

 

Today, I live in Virginia, USA, with his husband of over twenty-five years and a spirited Corgi Mix named Lucy Honeychurch in honor of E. M. Forster’s protagonist in A Room with a View.