Ana Hebra Flaster is a writer whose work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, as well as on NPR and PBS and in her weekly Substack, CubaCurious. Her memoir, "Property of the Revolution: From a Cuban Barrio to a New Hampshire Mill Town,” has won several awards, including the 2025 International Book Award in Creative Nonfiction and Best Memoir in the 2025 Indie Author Project Awards. After almost 40 years in the Boston area, she now lives with her husband in New Hampshire.
Recently published
I came to the U.S. on a Freedom Flight. Other Cubans haven't been so lucky
It's the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Flights, the largest refugee airlift in history. But how immigrants to the U.S. are treated depends more on American political and economic circumstances,...
How I became the matriarch of my Cuban family in New England
The resilient women before me bridged two cultures and two countries, protecting the mother tongue with ferocity, writes Ana Hebra Flaster. Now it's my turn.