This Is What Happened in Our Other Life [first edition]

Poetry. Gay & Lesbian Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. At last, the first collection of poems from the Pulitzer Prize and Lambda Literary Award winning Cuban-American author Achy Obejas! THISIS WHAT HAPPENED IN OUR OTHER LIFE charts the complexities of identity as the author explores her relationship to her lovers, her roots, her past, herself. Achy Obejas is the author of the novels Days of Awe (Ballantine) and Memory Mambo (Cleis) and the short story collection We Came All The Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? (Cleis). She is also the editor and translator of HAVANA NOIR (Akashic). She received an NEA Fellowship in Poetry in 1986.