Jacqueline Loss is a professor of Latin American and Caribbean Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Dreaming in Russian: The Cuban Soviet Imaginary (University of Texas Press, 2014) and Cosmopolitanisms and Latin America: Against the Destiny of Place (Palgrave, 2005). She has also co-edited Caviar with Rum: Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience (with José Manuel Prieto, Palgrave, 2012) and New Short Fiction from Cuba (with Esther Whitfield, Northwestern UP, 2007).