Mirta Ojito

Mirta Ojito

Mirta Ojito, a newspaper reporter since 1987, has worked for The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald, and, from 1996 to 2002, for The New York Times, where she covered immigration, among other beats, for the Metro Desk. Throughout her career she has received numerous awards, including the American Society of Newspaper Editor's writing award for best foreign reporting in 1999 for a series of articles about life in Cuba, and a shared Pulitzer for national reporting in 2001 for a New York Times series of articles about race in America. Her work has been included in several anthologies including To Mend the World: Women Reflect on 9/11, Written into History: Pulitzer Prize Reporting of the Twentieth Century from The New York Times, By Heart/De Memoria, and How Race is Lived in America. Ms. Ojito is a graduate of the mid-career master's degree program at Columbia University. Her first book, Finding Mañana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus (The Penguin Press), was released in 2005. She continues to write for The New York Times and other publications from New York City, where she lives with her husband and their three boys.