Conner Gorry

Author Conner Gorry has spent decades writing guidebooks for Lonely Planet, (Cuba included), reporting from post-disaster situations, and covering Cuban life from the inside for a variety of international publications. She first visited Cuba in 1993 and has been permanently based and officially accredited as a journalist in Havana since 2002 where she reports on everything from clinical trials to questionable fashion.

She has written several books about Cuba and founded the island’s only English-language bookstore/cafe, Cuba Libro, in 2013; most of her explorations for her recent book, 100 Places in Cuba Every Woman Should Go (2018; Traveler’s Tales), were made on a 1946 Harley-Davidson, leading one observer to say: ‘Conner’s Cuba is where Shakespeare and Company meets Easy Rider.” Indeed, she has traveled nearly 5,000 miles across the island on two wheels – necessary field research for her book Cuban Harleys, Mi Amor, (2014; Backroad Diaries) with photographs by Max Cucchi.

She writes about contemporary life in Cuba on her blog Here is Havana (www.hereishavana.com) and recently published her first collection of prose, poetry and rants TWATC.

To learn more:

www.connergorry.com

www.cubalibrohavana.com