Felicia Rosshandler

Felicia Rosshandler is the product of three strikingly different cultures, the German, the French and the Spanish. She was born in Berlin, raised in Antwerp, and grew up in Havana. She landed in the United States at the age of seventeen where she quickly added Anglo optimism to the salad. She has raised three American sons in New York.

Always startling, her ability to navigate different cultures has opened bright and dark doors. Her novel, "Passing Through Havana" examines the multicultural experience as propelled by love and war. Subsequent novels have dealt with the cataclysm of modernity and dislocation. She has just completed "Landing In New York", a series of memoir stories that chronicle her passage through the Twentieth Century.

Rosshandler has worked for the international press, including Tokyo Shimbun and LIFE En Español. While at LIFE she developed an eye for photography. Her images of naked Barbie, "The Venus of America", have been exhibited at The Kitchen and galleries in New York, Woodstock and Venice, Italy.

She lives in Manhattan with the writer Edmundo Desnoes.