Born in Matanzas, Cuba, in 1959, Fabiola Santiago grew up in Miami enamored of her family's nostalgic stories and their memories of the softest sands and the bluest beach in the world, Varadero. Exiled to the United States in 1969 with her parents and younger brother on one of the historic Freedom Flights, Fabiola has been a writer and editor for The Miami Herald since 1980.
Her award-winning stories and essays on arts, culture and identity have been published in several magazines and anthologies in the United States and abroad. She was the founding city editor and managing editor of the Spanish-language El Nuevo Herald from 1987 to 1993, and in 2001, shared in a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the federal government seizure of the child Elian González.
She has taught journalism at the University of Florida, Florida International University and Barry University. Fabiola is a graduate of the University of Florida and has three daughters. She lives in Miami. Her novel, Reclaiming Paris, is the story of a woman's quest for identity set in contemporary Miami to the backdrop of the city's Cuban culture and history. The book has also been published in Spanish as Siempre París and in Norwegian as Habanita. Read more about her work at www.reclaimingparis.com and www.fabiolasantiago.com.
You can contact Fabiola at fsantiago@miamiherald.com
Mariela Castro wasn’t able to leave the safe cocoon of the USA this week without revealing her true agenda.
After our father died, my brother and I made a pact to bridge what one might call the intellectual distance between us, a space that expanded after our teenaged complicity waned and we made our lives in the separate city corners of the geek and the jock.
Javier Aranzales, 17, has earned his optimism.
She speaks at school auditoriums and libraries packed with children, sometimes dressed up in a bright orange quinceañera dress, gloves and a tiara, to act out her most famous character.
Sandy Adams was a high school dropout married at 18 to a man she describes as a “violent alcoholic,” but she later mustered the courage to grab her 3-year-old daughter and flee from her Jacksonville home.
When I meet them Tuesday afternoon, the young couple is sitting in front of the brightly lit make-up mirrors at the studios of América TeVé in Hialeah Gardens.
Billy Corhen, the 33-year-old Miami filmmaker who tweeted mostly silly musings from his cell phone during his jury service, tells me right away what he thinks of my “what were you thinking?” phone call to him.
Nearly two months after killing Trayvon Martin with a gunshot to the chest, George Zimmerman apologized to his parents.
If we’re going to have a good old-fashioned culinary smackdown with our friends in Tampa, let’s cover all the bases in the name of enlightenment.
To his faithful followers, he was “ el padre Román,” a dedicated spiritual counselor like no other.
Barely a week after the pope left Cuba, the grand Oasis of the Seas, on a cruise from Fort Lauderdale to Mexico, rescues on the high seas 19 men and four women fleeing from the island in a small boat.
Once again, an institution in Florida goes out of its way to punish a meritorious immigrant for the peccadillo of parents who overstayed a tourist visa to give their son an opportunity at being an American.
Trayvon Martin’s family deserves answers, and so does a community rightfully outraged in the aftermath of his killing.
Sometimes the echo of a prayer travels far, much too far.
No justice, none at all, was delivered this week when a federal immigration judge denied 18-year-old Daniela Pelaez, the valedictorian at North Miami Senior High School, her application for U.S. residency and put her on a deportation track.
My apologies to Don McLean for borrowing his famous line, but I remember the day the venerable Miami Film Festival died.
Maybe, in between House committee meetings, he watched Jersey Shore.
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