Behar, Ruth

Ruth Behar is the author of several travel books, including Translated Woman, The Vulnerable Observer, An Island Called Home, and Traveling Heavy. Other works include Everything I Kept/Todo lo que guardé, a bilingual book of poems; the middle-grade novels Lucky Broken Girl and Letters from Cuba; and the children’s picture book Tía Fortuna’s New Home. Behar will be at Miami Book Fair 2022 to moderate a conversation with Sandra Cisneros, who is presenting Woman Without Shame: Poems (Knopf), her first book of poetry in 28 years, and three-term United States poet laureate Joy Harjo (Virtual), presenting two new books celebrating her 50-year body of work: Catching the Light (Why I Write) (Yale University Press) and Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years (W. W. Norton & Company).