Hispanic Media: Impact and Influence/4320

by Ana Veciana-Suarez

Paperback

First published February 1, 1987

About the author

Ana Veciana-Suarez is the author of the historical novel, DULCINEA (May 2023/Blackstone Publishing). She’s also written the young adult novel, Flight to Freedom (Scholastic) and a collection of essays, Birthday Parties in Heaven: Thoughts on Life, Love, Grief, and Other Matters of the Heart. (Plume) A previous book, The Chin Kiss King: A Novel (FSG) was nominated for the prestigious IMPAC Award, an international competition in Dublin. Two nonfiction books about the Hispanic media were published by The Media Institute, a think tank in Washington D.C.
As a syndicated columnist for The Miami Herald, her commentary ran in many newspapers and websites until 2024. Her essays have been included in several anthologies, and have appeared in Readers Digest, Oprah, Woman’s Day, The Washington Post Magazine, Parenting, and Latina magazine.
In 2019, she was awarded the Cintas Fellowship for Creative Writing. She has also received an Individual Artist Fellowship Award from the state of Florida for fiction writing.
She lives with her husband in Miami, where she eats two Dove dark chocolates every morning before she writes. Now that her children are grown and out of the house, she admits they taught her immeasurable patience and humility.