A Corner of the World

<h4>Lea Aschkenas is the author of <em>Es Cuba: Life and Love on an Illegal Island</em> (Seal Press, 2006). She lives in Northern California where she works as a public librarian and teaches poetry-writing with California Poets in the Schools. Visit her at www.leaaschkenas.com.</h4>

Lea Aschkenas

The Melancholy Muse: Mylene Fernández Pintado on Stories, Sentinels, and Staying in Cuba

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">— Fernando Pessoa, <em>The Book of Disquiet</em></p>

Around the World

Stranger than Fiction: Filmmaker Lucy Mulloy on Cuba, Una Noche and the Character-Driven Drama 

<strong><span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start">﻿</span>Andrew McGregor is a journalist, frequent TEDx speaker, filmmaker, inventor, writer, chessboxer, Highland games athlete, and entrepreneur. He has founded or co-founded several not-for-profits and social-enterprise companies and has managed humanitarian programs in Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is the curator of MindshareLA and has a master’s degree from the University of Southern California.</strong>

Andrew McGregor

<h4>Aliaa El Sandouby was born and raised in Cairo, Egypt. She left Egypt in 2001 to pursue a doctorate in Islamic Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has been on the faculty at Helwan University in Cairo since 2008. She lives with her husband and four children in Southern California and travels regularly to Cairo.</h4>
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Aliaa El Sandouby

<h4>Marco Musillo is an art historian, photographer, and curator who studies early modern and modern Italian and Chinese art, critical theory, and spectatorship. He received his Ph.D. from the University of East Anglia and will spend Fall 2013 at the Getty Research Institute. Musillo’s photographic explorations focus on shifting perspectives: how to capture and describe visual transformations taking shape in cultural, artistic, and political spaces of display.</h4>

Marco Musillo

<h4>International soprano Candice Hoyes debuts in 2014 at the National Slovenian Opera in the title role of Piccinni's <i>La Cecchina</i>, a reprisal of her Italian debut. Recent debuts include Hungary's Szeged Open Air Festival and Nevada Opera. Candice trained at Lorin Maazel's Castleton Festival and the Caramoor Festival. She graduated from Harvard University <i>cum laude</i> in Sociology, Columbia Law School and Westminster Choir College. </h4>

Candice Hoyes

<h4>Tomas Hachard is an Editorial Assistant for <i>Guernica Magazine</i>. He has written about art, politics, and himself for NPR, <i>The Morning News</i>, and <i>The Millions</i>, among others. Follow him on Twitter: @thachard.</h4>

Tomas Hachard

Around the World: Launch Edition

Letter from Ecuador: Toxic Legacies in the Land of Black and Yellow Gold

Letter From Bolivia: Waiting With the Aymará

Dream of a Different World

Lea Aschkenas is the author of <em>Es Cuba: Life and Love on an Illegal Island</em> (Seal Press, 2006). She lives in Northern California where she works as a public librarian and teaches poetry-writing with California Poets in the Schools. Visit her at www.leaaschkenas.com.