Beatriz Rivera

The photo is courtesy of the Abington Journal/Joan Mead-Matsui.

I was born in Cuba, raised in Miami, finished high school in Switzerland, spent the next ten years of my life in Paris, France, where I earned a master's degree in Philosophy. After that I moved to New York, then New Jersey, then back to New York and in the meantime I earned a PhD and had several novels publised. Now I am an Associate Professor at Penn State University.