Eddie Vega

Eddie Vega is a Cuban-born writer with degrees in English literature, writing, and journalism from Brooklyn College (CUNY) and Columbia University. His poetry has been published in numerous venues including Pearson’s My Perspectives textbook, where it quickly became a popular reading assignment in middle and high schools across the U.S. His news writing has appeared in Washington Post, T.V. Guide, Backstage Magazine, Billboard Magazine, The Tampa Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, and Austin-American Statesman. He is author of the novel Awake Now, Sailor, and a collection of poetry, Translating Grandfather’s House and other Poems Puntos and Décimas. Currently, he serves as publisher and managing editor of Noir Nation: International Crime Fiction, a print and digital journal that publishes fiction and poetry about crime or the promise of it.