Marisella Veiga was born in Havana, Cuba, and raised both in Miami, Florida, and St. Paul, Minnesota. Her writing has appeared in numerous national and international literary and commercial publications. Her book We Carry Our Homes with us: A Cuban American Memoir details her family’s early years in exile. She has received the Evelyn La Pierre Award in Journalism, the Canute M. Brodhurst Prize for short fiction as well as a Pushcart Prize Special Mention in Fiction. She was a syndicated columnist with Hispanic Link News Service. She was a featured home cook at the Florida Folklife Festival in White Springs, Florida. Veiga continues researching and writing about food and foodways—Cuban and now Floridian. Over decades of living and working in Florida,Marisella Veiga was born in Havana, Cuba, and raised both in Miami, Florida, and St. Paul, Minnesota. Her writing has appeared in numerous national and international literary and commercial publications. Her book We Carry Our Homes with us: A Cuban American Memoir details her family’s early years in exile. She has received the Evelyn La Pierre Award in Journalism, the Canute M. Brodhurst Prize for short fiction as well as a Pushcart Prize Special Mention in Fiction. She was a syndicated columnist with Hispanic Link News Service. She was a featured home cook at the Florida Folklife Festival in White Springs, Florida. Veiga continues researching and writing about food and foodways—Cuban and now Floridian. Over decades of living and working in Florida, she intentionally set out to learn its history and become familiar with more of the state to better love it. As a result, Marisella Veiga is at home in rural settlements and urban centers throughout the Old Peninsula....more