• Carmen Duarte, Ph.D in Comparative Studies from Florida Atlantic University. She received a Master's degree in Spanish and Literature from Florida Atlantic University and received a bachelor´s degree in Fine Arts with a major in theatre arts in her native Cuba, where she was a theater director, as well as playwright. She has two internationally performed plays and seven published books, one of plays (¿Cuánto me das marinero? 1994); four are novels (Hasta la vuelta 2001, La danza de los abanicos 2006, Donde empieza y acaba el mundo 2012, El inevitable rumbo de la brújula 2016), El barco que nos llevó a la guerra de Angola, 2022) and the research book Etnia, raza y sexualidad en la dramaturgia hispano-caribeña en los Estados Unidos (2021) (Silver Medal, Florida Book Awards 2022). Carmen also has years of experience in television news writing and production, and has worked as a radio producer, talk show host, and journalist. She has taught Spanish and drama. 
  • The play ¿Cuánto Me Das, Marinero? has been performed in several Latin-American countries, including Colombia and Argentina. It has been translatedinto German and Polish and performed in Europe. It is included in several theater anthologies, such as El Tiempo En Un Acto, 13 Obras de Teatro Cubano, Ollantay Press. N.Y., 1999. Other plays, such as Stradavarious, have been performed in different Latin-American countries, including Brazil. 
  • Duarte was invited to speak at the Second International Assembly of Dramatic Playwrights, in 1990, sponsored by the University of York, Toronto, Canada.
  • In 1993 she was invited to be a speaker at the Fifth International Forum of Dramatic Playwrights, Frankfort, Germany, sponsored by the ASSITEJ. 
  • Presentation of  “Slave Children: Analysis of Biography of a Runaway Slave” in the 37th Annual West Indian Literature Conference sponsored by Hemispheric Caribbean Studies, University of Miami, 2018. 
  • Presentation of "¿Se puede hablar de un teatro del Caribe hispano?" in 2020 Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Puerto Rico, 2020. 
  • In 2021, Letra Capital published her research book, Etnia, raza y sexualidad en la dramaturgia femenina hispano-caribeña en los Estados Unidos.
  • Etnia, raza y sexualidad en la dramaturgia femenina hispano-caribeña en los Estados Unidos, has been selected as the silver medal winner in the 2021 Florida Book Awards Spanish Language category.  
  • In 2022, Aduana Vieja published her novel, El barco que nos llevo a la guerra de Angola.

 

  • The author presented her novel Hasta La Vuelta, Editorial Plaza Mayor, 2000, at The Miami Book Fair International 2001, and at The Havana Book Fair International 2002.
  • Presented at The Miami Book Fair International the novel La Danza De Los Abanicos, Editorial Egales, Spain, 2006. 
  • Presented at The Miami Book Fair International the novel Donde empieza y acaba el mundo, Editorial Aduana Vieja, Spain, 2014.
  • Presented at The Miami Bok Fair International the novel El inevitable rumbo de la br´ujula, Aduana Vieja, Spain, 2016.
 
 
  • The Author has been interviewed and reviewed in several newspapers, books and literary publications, including:
  • CNN EN VIVO, by Camilo Egaña, Feb., 13, 2018.
  • Miami Herald. Article in “Tropical Life,” by Ana Veciana-Suárez, Jan. 22, 2007.
  • Ellas Hablan de la Isla, by Vitalina Alfonso, Ediciones Union, Habana, Cuba, 2002.
  • Espéculo of the Complutense University of Madrid. Review by Mireya Robles, 2001.
  • New York Times article by Juan Forero, April 28, 2000.
  • Nuevo Herald. Article, Dec. 18, 1993.