Reina María Rodríguez's most recent collection El libro de las clientas was published in 2005 (Havana: Editorial Letras Cubanas). Among her previous books are Bosque negro (2005), Otras cartas a Milena (2004), and Violet Island and Other Poems (bilingual anthology, Green Integer Press, 2004). Rodríguez recently won the Italo Calvino award for her first novel, which has just been translated into Italian, and she is a two-time winner of the Casa de las Américas prize for poetry. She co-edits the magazine Azoteas in Havana with Antón Arrufat.