Interview with Verónica Vega

Verónica Vega (La Habana, 1965-) is a writer and artist who has worked in the field of dance and participated in the multidisciplinary project OMNI Zonafranca. She also works as an independent journalist for Havana Times, El Estornudo, and other media outlets not recognized in Cuba. 

Her first novel, "Aquí lo que hay es que irse," was published in 2010 in France by Ediciones Bourgois as "Partir, un point c'est tout." Because of this work, she was invited to the Festival de Literatura Latinoamericana Belles Latinas, based in the city of Lyon. The novel was published in Miami in 2019 by Ediciones Neoclub. Her second novel, "El Arte de Respirar," was published by Ediciones Hypermedia in 2019 and presented in Miami at an alternative event coordinated by ex-members of OMNI Zonafranca, who are now based in the United States. 

Vega has written several unpublished books and is marginalized as a writer in her own country. She notes that "practicing freedom of expression in Cuba means disappearing as a public figure with the only recourse being either exile or existing and creating in a permanent insile."