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Life
Maricel Mayor Marsán is a Cuban writer born in Santiago de Cuba in 1952. She travelled to Spain in 1970, and she lived there until 1972 when she migrated to Miami, where she is currently living and working. Marsán is a poet, fiction and non-fiction writer and playwright, and she is also a literary critic, editor and professor.

Education and Career
She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history (with a specialisation in Caribbean Studies), a Bachelor of Arts in political sciences and an MA in Public Administration from Florida International University (FIU), as well as a doctoral degree in Legal Sciences from St Thomas University in Miami. Marsán co-founded the literary magazine Baquiana in 1999, considered as one of the most important literary magazines in Spanish in South Florida. Initially the magazine circulated in print and now it also publishes writing online by authors from Spain and Spanish speaking countries in the Caribbean and Latin America. She is also director of press operations for the magazine.

Mayor Marsán has published widely across literary genres. Her essays, poems, plays, and short stories are featured in literary journals and anthologies internationally and have been translated into Chinese, English, Italian and Swedish.

Marsán is a very active writer and speaker. She has taught in universities across the United States, and has delivered talks internationally at universities, literary festivals and art organisations. She is member of the Asociación Prometeo de Poesía de Madrid, del Circulo de Escritores y Poetas Iberoamericanos de Nueva York, del Círculo de Cultura Panamericano de New Jersey and the Academy of American Poets.

Marsán has co-edited the volumes of non-fiction Haz de incitaciones: poetas y artistas Cubanos hablan (2003) and the anthology of literary criticism Perfiles y Sombras: Una introducción a la poesía de José María Álvarez / Profiles and Shadows: An introduction to the poetry of José María Álvarez (2005). She has edited and written the preface for the following books: José Lezama Lima y la Mitificación barroca (2007) and Español o Spanglish: cúal es el futuro del español en los EE.UU.? (First edition 2005; 2006; 2008). Marsán has also translated into English Juan Ramón Jimenez’s Romances de Coral Gables.

Legacy and Literary Papers
The literary papers of Maricel Mayor Marsán are held at the Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami Libraries, the collection includes “correspondence, event flyers and programs, photographs, books, booklets, posters, and articles written by and about Cuban academic Maricel Mayor Marsán” as well as audiovisual materials.

Drama
Gravitaciones teatrales (2002)

The plan of the waters / El plan de las aguas (2008)

Trilogía de teatro breve (2012)

Las tocayas / pieza teatral (2013)

Non-fiction
Crónicas Hispanounidenses (2014)

Poetry
Lágrimas de papel (1975)

17 Poemas y un saludo (1978)

Rostro Cercano (1986)

Un corazón dividido / a Split Heart (1998)

Errores y horrores / sinopsis histórica poética del siglo XX (first edition 2000, second edition 2001)

En el tiempo de los adioses (2003)

Poemas desde Church Street / Poems from Church Street (2006)

''Desde una Plataforma en Manhattan. Antología poética 1986 - 2006'' (2008)

Miami: poemas de aguas (2008)

Rumores de suburbios (2009)