Legna Rodríguez Iglesias


Legna Rodríguez Iglesias is a Cuban poet, playwright, and short story writer. Her work is often characterized by absurdist humor and playfully perverse observations of everyday life in contemporary Cuba and Miami, as well as cross-genre experimentation with prose poetry and narrative poetry. Four of her poems, in the original Spanish and in English translation, were featured in The Kenyon Review's 2018 special issue on new Cuban poetry.

Personal life

She is originally from Camagüey, Cuba. She currently lives in Miami, Florida.

Honors

She was awarded the Julio Cortázar Ibero-American Short Story Prize in 2011 and the Casa de Las Américas Prize in Theater in 2016. Her poetry collection Miami Century Fox won the Paz Prize for Poetry in 2017. In July 2018, her short story collection Mi novia preferida fue un bulldog francés was nominated for the Gabriel García Márquez Hispano-American Short Story Prize by the Colombian Ministry of Culture and the National Library of Colombia.

Works

Poetry