Martha María Montejo

Bayamo (Cuba), 1974. Studied journalism at the University of Havana. Has lived in the United States since 2008. Earned a PhD from Texas A&M University. Has contributed to magazines such as Hypermedia Magazine, among others. Currently lives in Houston, where she works as a Spanish teacher.

Book Reviews

Notes on a Healing

December 29, 2025 / Martha María Montejo

A literary procedure of healing that transforms pain and illness into poetic art, documenting the intimate experience of body and mind.

Book Reviews

Always Susan, Always Sigrid

June 2, 2025 / Martha María Montejo

An intimate portrait of a complex friendship with Susan Sontag. Testimonies of an intense literary life full of contradictions.

Book Reviews

A Farewell

May 12, 2025 / Martha María Montejo

‘I’m Gone’ by Jean Echenoz, Goncourt Prize winner of 1999, bids farewell to the 20th century through Félix Ferrer, an art dealer navigating personal trials in a dehumanized world.

Book Reviews

Pushing the limits

April 30, 2025 / Martha María Montejo

‘What Are You Going Through’, narrated in the first person, is the human confession of a witness to death, in which Sigrid Nunez weaves humor, autofiction, and reflections on life and literature around an accompanied death.