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Ruth Behar was born in Havana, Cuba to a mixed Ashkenazi-Sephardic family. She grew up in New York, and became the first Latina to win a MacArthur Genius Grant. A cultural anthropologist, poet, and fiction writer, she explores Jewish identity in Cuban contexts in her award-winning middle-grade novels, Lucky Broken Girl and Letters from Cuba, and picture book, Tía Fortuna’s New Home. A graduate of Wesleyan and Princeton, Behar is the James W. Fernandez Distinguished Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.