ANA MENÉNDEZ has published five books of fiction: The Apartment: A Novel (Counterpoint, 2023); Adios, Happy Homeland!; The Last War: A Novel; Loving Che: A Novel; and In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd, whose title story won a Pushcart Prize. She has worked as a journalist in the United States and abroad, most recently as a prize-winning columnist for the Miami Herald. As a reporter, she wrote about Cuba, Haiti, Kashmir, Afghanistan, and India. Menéndez’s work has also appeared in Vogue, Bomb, The New York Times, and Tin House, and has been included in several anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature. She has a B.A. in English from Florida International University and an MFA from New York University. From 2008 to 2009, she lived in Cairo, Egypt, as a Fulbright Scholar. She has also lived in India, Turkey, Slovakia, and the Netherlands, where she designed a creative writing minor at Maastricht University in 2011. For the past 20 years, Menéndez has taught at various writing conferences and programs, most recently at Bread Loaf and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She lives in Miami and is currently an associate professor at Florida International University, with joint appointments in English and the Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab.