Mirta Ojito
Throughout her career Mirta Ojito has received several awards, including the American Society of Newspaper Editor's writing award for best foreign reporting in 1999 for a series of articles about life in Cuba, and a shared Pulitzer for national reporting in 2001 for a New York Times series of articles about race in America.
She has taught journalism at New York University, Columbia University and the University of Miami.
Her work has been included in several anthologies including To Mend the World: Women Reflect on 9/11 (2002), Written into History: Pulitzer Prize Reporting of the Twentieth Century from The New York Times (2001), By Heart/De Memoria (2003), and How Race is Lived in America (2001).
Mirta Ojito, who was born in Cuba, came to the United States in the 1980 Mariel boatlift when she was 16. Her first book is Finding Ma