She met the poet Heberto Padilla, who also received honorable mention in that competition (with El justo tiempo humano) and would become her partner five years later.
About this time she says: Hacía periodismo cultural, no iba al periódico más que a entregar mis artículos y andaba todo el tiempo entrevistando a escritores y artistas extranjeros que llegaban a Cuba.
Creo que he entrevistado a todo el mundo, desde Alberto Moravia a Nicanor Parra, pasando por Martha Traba, Vargas Llosa, y a la mayoría de los poetas y novelistas españoles.
Y con algunos otros, como Julio Cortázar, tuve el privilegio de hablar y conversar sobre literatura varias veces.
I think I've interviewed everyone, from Alberto Moravia to Nicanor Parra, by way of Martha Traba, Mario Vargas Llosa, and the majority of the Spanish poets and novelists.
In 1971, the already-published collection of poems from the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba was destroyed due to the arrest of Cuza Malé and Padilla.
[5] At first, Cuza Malé stayed with her parents, but she later had to move, as the Cuban government warned that her husband would not be allowed to emigrate if she did not leave Miami.
There she worked as an administrator in a Cuban clothing store, and later in other places, illegally, as she had tourist status and could not seek asylum for fear of reprisals that Cuba might take against Padilla and her daughter.
In Princeton in 1982 – in collaboration with Padilla, who had initially opposed the idea – Cuza Malé founded Linden Lane Magazine, specializing in art and literature of Cubans in exile.
In 1986, she founded the Cuban cultural center and art gallery La Casa Azul in Fort Worth, Texas, where she had moved.
Mi educación fue católica, y cuando más, visitaba alguna espiritista en Santiago, muy buena, por cierto.
No sé bien cómo, pero soy una "profeta" (según lo señala San Pablo en Corintios); una síquica para algunos; alguien que lee mentes, lee el "futuro" (que no existe, por cierto); pero sí "adivino" lo que el otro piensa y no dice.