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Ana Hebra Flaster

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Havana, Cuba

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Ana Hebra Flaster was five years old when her family fled post-revolutionary Cuba in 1967. The child-refugee experience and the family’s assimilation in New Hampshire have inspired her articles, essays, and reviews, which have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and other online and print media. Her commentaries and short stories have been included in anthologies and on NPR’s national broadcasts of All Things Considered and Weekend Edition, and PBS’s Moth-style television program, Stories from the Stage.

Ana also shares her work through speaking engagements at high schools, universities, libraries, and in productions like the International Institute of New England’s “Suitcase Ana Hebra Flaster was five years old when her family fled post-revolutionary Cuba in 1967. The child-refugee experience and the family’s assimilation in New Hampshire have inspired her articles, essays, and reviews, which have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and other online and print media. Her commentaries and short stories have been included in anthologies and on NPR’s national broadcasts of All Things Considered and Weekend Edition, and PBS’s Moth-style television program, Stories from the Stage.

Ana also shares her work through speaking engagements at high schools, universities, libraries, and in productions like the International Institute of New England’s “Suitcase Stories” and the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art's “When Home Won’t Let You Stay.”

In 2022, the Cintas Foundation selected Ana as one of five finalists for its Fellowship in Creative Writing, an international writing competition. In the fall of 2023, PROPERTY OF THE REVOLUTION was selected as a finalist in Restless Book’s New Immigrant Writing Prize and She Writes Press’s STEP Prize.

When Ana is not writing she can be found floating on New Hampshire's Lake Winnipesaukee, digging in her garden, or making paella for her 27-person Cuban American clan. After more than 40 years in the Boston area, Ana recently moved back home to New Hampshire with her husband, Andy, and their two Havanese pups, Luna and Beny Moré.

PROPERTY OF THE REVOLUTION (Pub. Date: April 22, 2025)
First Place (2024-2025)
International Book Awards, Creative Nonfiction
Discovery Book Awards, Nonfiction (overall)
Firebird Book Award, Narrative Nonfiction
Firebird Book Award, Multicultural
Literary Global, Nonfiction Narrative

Finalist (2024-2025)
Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Historical Nonfiction
Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Memoir-Historical-Legacy
Literary Titan Gold Book Award, Nonfiction
American Writing Awards, Nonfiction
Indies Today, Inspirational
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Property of the Revolution: From a Cuban Barrio to a New Hampshire Mill Town―A Memoir

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Ana Hebra Flaster's Blog: CubaCurious

Cuba's border patrol—shoot first, ask questions later

Cubans fleeing the island, this group in 1994, have feared encounters with their own coast guard, who some survivors have accused of ramming their rafts and boats to stop them.

27 febrero 2026

I was supposed to be off until 3/13, but this week’s Cuba news drove me back to my keyboard.

We have more questions than answers about the confrontation on Wednesday between a U.S.-registered launch and

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One of my favorite books of all time. I have read Eire's other books, including his latest: They Flew. Being Cuban American, I had a special interest in the topic. His experiences were quite different than mine. I came as a child refugee in 1967 with ...more
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Beautiful, empowering, the lift you need right now. This wonderful, empowering book will soothe and inspire you—and fill you with wonder. If you're like me, you need this positivity right now—even if you don't think you do. Sager should go by "Sage," ...more
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