Fabiola Santiago, a Miami Herald columnist, is author of the novel "Reclaiming Paris," a story set in contemporary Miami to the backdrop of the city's Cuban culture and history with a Parisian twist. Published by Simon & Schuster and chosen for a Mariposa Award as Best First Book at the International Latino Book Awards, "Reclaiming Paris" was translated into Spanish and titled "Siempre Paris." The novel is a bestseller in Norway, where it was retitled, "Habanita" after one of the perfumes the protagonist wears. Born in Matanzas, Cuba, Fabiola grew up enamored of her family's nostalgic stories and the memory of the softest sands and the bluest beach in the world, Varadero. Exiled to the United States in 1969 with her family on one of the historic Freedom Flights, Fabiola has been a writer and editor for The Miami Herald since 1980. Her award-winning columns, stories and essays on arts, culture and identity have been published in several magazines and anthologies in the United States and abroad. She was the founding city editor and managing editor of the Spanish-language El Nuevo Herald, and in 2001, shared in a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the federal government seizure of the child Elian Gonzalez. She's graduate and Distinguished Alumna of the University of Florida. Read more about her work at www.reclaimingparis.com and www.fabiolasantiago.com. Read her columns at http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/fabiola-santiago/