Achy Obejas

Achy Obejas is the author of the new book of short stories, ‘The Tower of the Antilles,’ which will be launched June 21 at City Lights. She has published four other works of fiction and is the translator for more than a dozen books, including, into Spanish, Junot Diaz’s ‘Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.’ She is the founder and director of the MFA in translation at Mills College.