About the Author
Who is Dr. Emir Cruz Fernández?
Emir Cruz Fernández is a novelist building an interconnected cycle of works exploring memory, exile, and ethical inheritance across time.
His fiction moves between the Caribbean, New York City, and antiquity, tracing how lives echo across generations, cities, and bodies. Rather than standalone narratives, his ...
A Glimpse into Cruz Fernández's literary universe
Cruz Fernández’s fiction is conceived as part of a closed literary cycle rather than as isolated novels. Each work is written to stand on its own while also contributing to a larger moral architecture in which memory persists across time, identities fracture and return, and ethical questions remain unfinished ...
Background
Cruz Fernández holds a Ph.D. in Spanish Golden Age Literature from the CUNY Graduate Center. His academic training in aljamiado-morisco literature, classical Iberian texts, philosophy, and comparative literary traditions informs the structural and ethical concerns of his fiction, without determining its scope or ...