Ana Veciana-Suarez (born 1956 in
Cuba
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)
is a syndicated
columnist, author and former journalist. Her columns are distributed by
Tribune Content Agency
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.
She lives in
Miami
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,
Florida
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.
Early life and education
Veciana-Suarez was born in
Havana
Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center. , Cuba. Her family migrated to the United States when she was six years old. Her father
Antonio Veciana is a
Cuban exile
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who was involved in several
assassination attempts against
Fidel Castro.
Veciana-Suarez graduated
summa cum laude from the
University of South Florida
The University of South Florida (USF) is a public research university with its main campus located in Tampa, Florida, and other campuses in St. Petersburg and Sarasota. It is one of 12 members of the State University System of Florida. USF i ...
.
She has worked at ''
The Miami News
''The Miami News'' was an evening newspaper in Miami, Florida. It was the media market competitor to the morning edition of the '' Miami Herald'' for most of the 20th century. The paper started publishing in May 1896 as a weekly called ''The Miami ...
'', ''
The Palm Beach Post
''The Palm Beach Post'' is an American daily newspaper serving Palm Beach County in South Florida, and parts of the Treasure Coast. On March 18, 2018, in a deal worth US$42.35 million, ''The Palm Beach Post'' and ''The Palm Beach Daily News'' ...
'' and most recently, ''
The Miami Herald
The ''Miami Herald'' is an American daily newspaper owned by the McClatchy Company and headquartered in Doral, Florida, a city in western Miami-Dade County and the Miami metropolitan area, several miles west of Downtown Miami.[Clarion Award
Clarion may refer to:
Music
* Clarion (instrument), a type of trumpet used in the Middle Ages
* The register of a clarinet that ranges from B4 to C6
* A trumpet organ stop that usually plays an octave above unison pitch
* "Clarion" (song), a 2 ...]
, a Green Eyeshade and two Sunshine State Awards.
Published works
* ''The Chin Kiss King'' (
Plume, 1998).
It was originally published in English by Farrar Strass Giroux in 1997. It was re-issued in 2015.
* ''Birthday Parties in Heaven'' (Plume, 2000)
* ''Flight to Freedom'' (
Scholastic, 2002). It was reissued in 2016.
;With the Media Institute
* ''Hispanic Media: Impact and Influence'' (1990)
* ''Hispanic Media, USA: A Narrative Guide to the Print and Electronic Hispanic News Media in the United States'' (1987)
References
External links
* — Biography on ''
Scholastic''
1956 births
Living people
People from Miami
People from Havana
American women journalists
21st-century American women
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