Abel Sierra Madero (born in Matanzas, 1976) is a Cuban author and scholar who was awarded the Casa de las Américas Prize in 2006.
[3] Additionally, his work is taught in courses about Latin America and Cultural Studies in universities in the United States.
[4] Abel Sierra Madero has also been invited to deliver lectures in universities such as, Princeton,[5] Harvard,[6] Columbia,[7] NYU and many others.
Aside from the Casa de las Américas Prize, he has received various awards and fellowships, including The Martin Duberman[8] (CLAGS, CUNY); Research Fellowship, International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society (IASSCS)/Ford Foundation;[9] ERASMUS (European Community); Research Fellowship "Sexualities, Masculinities and Modernities", Ford Foundation/South-South Exchange Program for Research on the History of Development (SEPHIS); and "Catauro Cubano", Cuban Book Institute Award for his contribution to the Social Sciences in Cuba.
Sierra Madero has contributed with several magazines, journals, and newspapers such as Letras Libres,[10] Cuban Studies, The Rumpus,[11] Diario de Cuba,[12] El Nuevo Herald,[13] Hypermedia Magazine[14] among others.