2016-2017
Virgil Suárez was born in Havana, Cuba in 1962 and has lived in the United States since 1972. He is the author, editor, and translator of a multitude of books, including the short story collection The Soviet Circus Comes to Havana & Other Stories and the poetry collection 90 Miles: Selected & New Poems. Professor of Creative Writing at Florida State University, Suárez is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Grant as well as an Individual Arts Grant Recipient from the State of Florida.