“I write to make peace with the things I cannot control…I write to honor beauty…I write to the questions that shatter my sleep…I write as an act of faith…I write because I believe in words…I write because it belongs to the force of the moon: high tide, low tide."                                                                      

                                                                -Terry Tempest Williams

 

Elena Aguilar is a writer, photographer, and educator. 

She recently completed A Hard Rain: A Memoir of Cuba in Crisis about the year that she spent living in Havana in the mid-1990s.  She has also written articles about her experiences teaching in Oakland, about her relationship with her mother, and about growing up as the granddaughter of communists. 

She lives in Oakland, California with her husband and son.