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Jorge Mañach (1898-1961) was a Cuban lawyer, philosopher and writer. Mañach graduated from Harvard University in 1920 with a degree in philosophy and continued his studies in France and Cuba. While in exile during the 1930s, Mañach taught at Columbia University in New York City, until returning to Cuba in 1939. Upon his return to Cuba, he continued his teaching career at University of Havana, and was also creator and contributor to Universidad del Aire, a radio instruction program.

Mañach participated in revolutionary activities against the Fulgencio Batista government in the 1930s and was exiled at various points of his adult life to Spain and the United States for political reasons. In 1960, he was forced into exile to Puerto Rico because of his dissent of the government of Fidel Castro. He died in Puerto Rico in 1961. He was married to Margot Baños and had one son, Dr. Jorge Mañach-Baños.

José Lezama Lima was born to Rosa Lima Rosado and José María Lezama Rodda on 19 December 1910 at the Campamento Militar de Columbia, Marianao, near Havana. Lezama Lima was the second of three children, including two sisters, Rosa and Eloísa. José studied law at the University of Havana and graduated in 1938.

Poet, novelist and essayist, he had a solid foundation in the classics of the Spanish Golden Age and avidly studied the French Symbolists, who influenced his first book of poems: Muerte de Narciso (1937). He was one of the founders of the journals Verbum (1937), Espuela de Plata (1939-1941), Nadie Parecía (1942-1944), and Orígenes (1944-1956). He also collaborated in many Cuban magazines such as Gráfos, Diario de la Marina, Revista de la Biblioteca Nacional José Martí, and in foreign publications among which were Revista Mexicana de Literatura, El Heraldo Cultural (Mexico), Les Lettres Nouvelles (France), and Tri Quarterly (US).

Over the years his works have been studied by many literary critics, one of which, Emilio Bejel, considered that: "Most critics of Spanish American literature agree that José Lezama Lima is one of the truly universal writers of our time. His style, his poetic vision, and the unique role he defines for literature have been a continuing influence in Cuba, as well as throughout Latin America" (José Lezama Lima: Poet of the Image [Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1990] p. 2).

Lezama Lima's works have been translated into many languages. He received the Premio Maldoror (Spain, 1972) for his Poesías completas. In 1968 he was honored by the Biblioteca Nacional José Martí and in 1970 by the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC). Many seminars and conferences have bee dedicated to his works, and his literary production still receives international recognition.

Months after his mother's death in 1964, Lezama Lima married María Luisa Bautista Treviño. He died in Havana on 9 August 1976.

Carmen Alea Paz (d. 2016) was a poet, columnist, professor, and author who facilitated social change through her writing, which advocated for women to pursue traditionally male-dominated professional careers in the 1940’s and 50’s. She was born in Havana, Cuba in June of 1926.

In pre-Revolutionary Cuba, she wrote extensively for popular magazines such as Lux, Romances, Vanidades, Bazar, and Colorama and major newspapers of the era including Avance, El País, El Mundo, and the famous Diario de la Marina. Many of her articles highlighted the role of women in modern Cuban society. She also published poetry. In August 1943, Alea Paz wrote an essay on María Sklodowska Curie who protested against tsarism in Poland in the magazine Lux. This is an example of the anti-totalitarian thought that Alea Paz was a proponent of in her works. Another illustration is the poem “Inconformidad” published in El Diario de La Marina’s “Esquina del Poeta” (Poet’s Corner) on Sunday July 6,1958.

She married Carlos Paz in Havana in 1955. In January of 1962, Alea Paz and her husband left Cuba. They settled in the area of Los Angeles, California. Upon arriving in Los Angeles, Alea Paz earned a Master’s of Arts in English from California State University at Northridge. She later taught there as a professor of Spanish language and literature, as well as teaching classes at other colleges in the area. She continued to write, producing essays, critiques, poetry in Spanish and English and short stories in Spanish and English for newspapers and magazines such as La Opinión, Contact Magazine, La Voz Libre in Los Angeles; Diario de las Américas, Gaceta Lírica in Miami; Thought in Tampa; Círculo de Cultura, and Círculo Poético of Verona, New Jersey. She did translation work for a variety of projects including the book by Hill Chapin If you have kids, then be a parent! (¡Si usted tiene niños, entonces sea padre!), and videos for instance “Dive, dive, dive” (Directo al Fondo.)

In 1992, her career as a literary writer and poet took off, with the publication of her first book of poetry El caracol y el tiempo. In 1993 she was awarded the Enrique Labrador Ruiz International Short Story Award. In 1996, she published a novella plus short stories called El veranito de María Isabel y cuentos para insomnes rebeldes, which was published by Ponce de León press, and in 1999 she won the Dr. Alberto Gutiérrez de la Solana International Unpublished Novel Contest, sponsored by the Pan American Culture Circle of New Jersey. In 2001, she won the Alberto Gutiérrez de la Solana International Prize from the Pan American Culture Circle for her novel about the exile condition called Labios sellados. She also won a prize for a poem about the Cuban apostle José Martí called “El hombre de la rosa blanca” (The man of the white rose):

“Tu verbo claro, luminoso, armado/ con razones de honor y de justicia,/ de libertad clamaba la primicia/ para tu amado pueblo esclavizado. “En el cual se sigue proyectando el interés de la autora por la palabra como arma y expresión de la libertad humana y de su derecho a ser”.

In 2004, her novel Casino azul was published by the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur. She also produced a family story called Risas, confeti y serpentinas. Her work has also appeared in collections of Cuban exile literature such as Narrativa y libertad (Cuban stories of the diaspora) published by Ediciones Universal of Miami in 1996 and in Trayectoria de la mujer cubana by Concepción Teresa Alzola, published in 2009 by Ediciones Universal. She continued to submit and publish poems in digital format through 2012. She also donated an unpublished manuscript by José Martí called Pensamientos to the University of Miami Cuban Heritage Collection, which Martí is said to have written in New York at the end of the 19th century and given to his secretary Gonzalo de Quesada. She was presented with the manuscript due to her own work on Martí at the Martiano Seminary of the University of Havana directed by Gonzalo Quesada y Miranda. The authenticity of the manuscript was certified by the Cuban essayist and Cuban historian Carlos Ripoll, considered one of the most important experts on Martí.

Adis Barrio Tosar was a Cuban writer and essayist. She is most known for her literary interpretation and criticism of the work of Enrique Labrador Ruiz, which she published under the title Labrador Ruiz en su laberinto in 2007 by Editorial Letras Cubanas of Havana, Cuba. She also wrote the book Realidad, fantasía y humor en tres escritores cubanos about the writers Enrique José Varona, Alfonso Hernández Catá, and Enrique Labrador Ruiz, which was published in 2008 by Editorial Oriente in Santiago de Cuba. Barrio additionally wrote the book Escritos periodísticos de Enrique Labrador Ruiz, which was published in 2013 by Ediciones Extramuros of Havana, Cuba.

Julio Angel Mestre is an exiled Cuban economist who was born in Havana, Cuba in 1935. He is the son of Aida Margarita Cordovés Bolaños and Juan José Mestre Miyares and grandson of Julio Cordovés y de la Paz and Isabel Bolaños Fundora. The Cordovés and Bolaños families were involved in Cuba's Wars of Independence against Spain. Rosario (Charo) and Encarnita Lastra, great-aunts of Mestre, were members of the Cuban Liberation Army (Mambises) within the brigade headed by José María Aguirre, Chief of the Division of Havana, and served under Generalísimo Máximo Gómez.

Mestre studied at the Colegio de la Salle in Havana and graduated with a degree in economics from the Universidad Católica de Santo Tomás de Villanueva in 1957. He served as number 3195 in the Brigade 2506 during the Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba in 1961. Later, he worked for Union Panamericana in Washington, DC (1963-1965), for CBS/Time Life (1965-1968), and for Kodak Corp. in Venezuela (1968-1972). Mestre established private businesses in Venezuela, Santo Domingo, and Madrid. He and his wife, Sandra Teresita Caballero, have two sons. After residing for many years in Venezuela, Mestre now makes his home in the United States.

Luisa María Güell is a Cuban-born actress, singer and composer. She started her artistic career in Cuba at the age of five working in TV commercials. Later she worked as an actress for TV and Theatre. She recorded 24 disks many of which went "Gold." She is a celebrated singer with an international career whose work has received awards and recognitions from Europe through the Hispanic world. In Paris, she received "Edith Piaf" golden medal, an award received for the first time by a non-French singer.

Ignacio Carrera-Jústiz is a Cuban architect living in Miami, Florida.