Author Archive: Elena Schwolsky

Out of the File Drawer and Onto the Page: My Journey from Writer to Author

I didn’t set out to write a memoir, or a book, or even a story. The scraps of memory that eventually became Waking in Havana began to surface as I sat at my small formica kitchen table, placed a cassette in the ancient tape recorder I had unearthed from a jumble of give-away items in […]