Yoe Suárez. Havana, 1990. Author of a dozen books, including the non-fiction books "La otra isla" (Michael Jacobs Fellowship Finalist 2016 and International Latino Book Award 2019), "Charles en el mosaico" (Casa de las Américas Mention 2017), "El soplo del demonio: Violence and Gangs in Havana" (2018), "Leviathan: Political Police and Socialist Terror" (Ilíada Prize 2021), and "Hoz y Cruz" (Manuel Márquez Sterling Prize 2025). He coordinated the anthology of Cuban chronicles "Espectros" (2017), and published the novel "No se juega con la noche" (2019).Translated into Italian and English.
He was a correspondent in Cuba for CBN News. He has published in The Hill, Newsweek, Vice, El Espectador, Univisión and El Español.
Until his exile in 2022, he experimented with narrative journalism and wrote investigations for independent websites on topics such as the erasure of historical memory, blacklists, and torture, recognized by the Latin American Center for Journalism in Panama.
He received the Hypermedia Editorial Reporting Award in 2017 and 2018, and the Gabo Cultural Journalism Fellowship in 2018. That year, he founded Boca de Lobo, a platform that clandestinely edited, printed, and distributed books by censored authors, and offered reporting workshops to members of civil society.He has given talks and lectures at Duke University, Carlos III University in Madrid, and José Matías Delgado University in El Salvador.
He was a writer-in-residence at Ashland University and a visiting professor for the Master's in Creative Writing program in the summer of 2023. His journalistic texts were adapted into comics and compiled in the volume "Quiebre de espíritu" (2024). He has appeared in anthologies of essays, journalism, and poetry. The latter have also appeared in magazines such as Esquife, El Caimán Barbudo, Islíada, and Árbol Invertido.
His stories have been adapted for audiovisual productions in France and Cuba, with the participation of artists such as Mexican filmmaker Andrés Lugo and visual artist Néstor Siré. He directed, among others, the films Normadentro (Memoria Documental Award, Muestra Joven ICAIC 2011), Ni piedras ni cuchillos (2014), El retorno y el fin (2014), and the feature film Cuba Crucis (2022).
