Dariel Suarez

DARIEL SUAREZ is a Cuban-born writer who’s lived in the U.S. since 1997. He’s the author of a chapbook, In The Land of Tropical Martyrs, available from Backbone Press. Dariel earned his M.F.A. in fiction at Boston University, where he was a Global Fellow and instructor. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals and magazines, including Michigan Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, The Florida Review, Southern Humanities Review, and The Caribbean Writer, where his work was awarded the First Lady Cecile de Jongh Literary Prize. His short story collection, A Kind of Solitude, was a finalist for the New American Fiction Prize. Dariel is currently teaching fiction at GrubStreet and finishing revisions on a novel about a Cuban political prisoner, titled The Playwright’s House. More can be found at www.darielsuarez.com.