Dick Cluster Translator, Author & Editor

Dick Cluster, the editor and translator of this collection, is the co-author of History of Havana (Palgrave, 2006). He is also the author of the novels Return to Sender, Repulse Monkey and Obligations of the Bone and the author of nonfiction books including They Should Have That Cup of Coffee and Shrinking Dollars, Vanishing Jobs. He is the translator of Cuban literature including such works as Mylene Fernandez Pintado, A Corner of the World (City Lights, 2014) and Pedro de Jesus, Frigid Tales (City Lights, 2002). Cluster taught courses on Cuban history, culture and politics at the University of Massachusetts at Boston where he was Associate Director of the University Honors Program. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area.