Emilia Bernal Agüero (Nuevitas, 8 May 1882 – 1964) was a Cuban poet, who also cultivated other genres such as essay, translation and the autobiographical novel.
Along with several other middle-class, educated women writer contemporaries -Lydia Cabrera, Teresa Casuso Morín, Rita Geada, Ana Maria Simo, and Hilda Perera Soto- Bernal left Cuba after the 1959 Revolution.
[1] Emilia Bernal Aguero was born and raised in Nuevitas, Camagüey Province), where her mother was a teacher.
Following the Cuban War of Independence of 1895, the family emigrated briefly to Hispaniola, but soon returned to Cuba, settling in Havana.
[2] She had a relationship with the Majorcan Llorenç Villalonga i Pons; though there were differences of age and training, they inspired each other.