Ivonne Lamazares

Ivonne Lamazares was born in Havana, and at the age of thirteen, left Cuba and settled in Miami, Florida. Her novel, The Sugar Island (Houghton Mifflin), was translated to seven languages. Her new novel, The Tilting House, will be published with Counterpoint Press in July 2025.Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Latina Magazine, The Southern Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Florida Review, A Century of Cuban Writers in Florida, Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment & Healing, and elsewhere.She is the recipient of an NEA and three Florida Individual Artist Fellowships. She lives in Miami with her husband, poet Steve Kronen.