Roberto G. Fernández (born 24 September 1951) is a Cuban American novelist and short story writer.

He is noted for his grotesque satires of the Cuban American community, especially in his English-language novels, Raining Backwards and Holy Radishes!

In 2001, he was named the Dorothy Lois Breen Hoffman Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University.

[2] His writing is said to engage the links among history, exile, personal, and collective identity, and simultaneously defamiliarize them through parody and pastiche, counteracting in such a move the underlying poignancy of the diasporic experience.

[5] Although Fernández's first two books, written in Spanish, were "well received within the Cuban exile literary community",[6] he did not gain wide critical attention until he published in English.