Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? as well as the poetry chapbook This is What Happened in Our Other Life. A new collection of short stories, "The Tower of Antilles & Other Stories" is coming from Akashic in 2017. In a reflection on Obejas' work, Latina comedian Lisa Alvarado says of the writer, "Her work exudes a keen sense of humor, of irony, of compassion and is laced with the infinite small moments that make her poetry and her novels sing with the breath of real life." Journalism Throughout her career, Obejas has worked for many different publications, including the Chicago Tribune, Windy City Times, The Advocate, Out, Vanity Fair, Playboy, Ms., The Village Voice, and The Washington Post. Currently, she contributes to In These Times. As a Chicago Tribune columnist for nearly ten years, Obejas penned the nightlife column "After Hours". The column started when then-Friday section editor Kevin Moore asked the self-described insomniac if she would like to cover nighttime entertainment for the paper. In 2001, Obejas announced that she would no longer write the column. Works Novels Memory Mambo (1996) Days of Awe (2001) Ruins (2009) Collections We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? (1994) (stories) This Is What Happened In Our Other Life (2007) (poems) The Tower of the Antilles (2017) (stories) Other Havana Noir (2007) (translator and editor) La Breve y Maravillosa Vida de Oscar Wao (2008) (translator) "Immigrant Voices: 21st Century Stories" (2014) (co-editor with Megan Bayles) Papi by Rita Indiana (2016) (translator) Boomerang / Bumerán (poetry) (2021) Awards Obejas has received a Pulitzer Prize for her work in a Chicago Tribune team investigation, the Studs Terkel Journalism Prize, several Peter Lisagor journalism honors, and two Lambda Literary awards. She has also been a National Endowment for the Arts fellow in poetry and served residencies at Yaddo, Ragdale and the Virginia Center for the Arts. In 2010 she was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame. In 2014, she was awarded a USA Ford Fellowship for literature and translation. See also List of Cuban American writers List of LGBT writers References External links Official site Marika Preziuso (October 2010). "Interview with Achy Obejas" sx salon. Retrieved 12 April 2010. Otium 1956 births 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American women novelists American women poets American writers of Cuban descent