Mirta Ojito
Columbia Journalism Professor Mirta Ojito’s life has taken an extraordinary path from Cuba - which she left at age 16 in the 1980 Mariel boat lift –all the way to The New York Times; a shared Pulitzer Prize; teaching and book writing. Ojito’s first book, Finding Mañana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus (Penguin Press, $16.00), was released in 2005. She is now working on Hunting Season: A Story of Home, Immigration and Murder, which will be released next year by Beacon Press, and she continues to write for a variety of publications in both English and Spanish.
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