[1] After a brief career acting in Cuban film and television, she turned to writing and won recognition more readily abroad than within Cuba.

[13] Guerra's first collection of poems, Platea a oscuras, won her the prize "13 de marzo", published in Havana (Cuba) in 1987.

[4] She then earned a degree in film, radio and television direction at Havana's Instituto Superior de Arte.

[14] She worked as an actress on Cuban television and in film, but considers her abilities limited, though she found the experience useful as a student of character and interpretation.

In 2014 the novel was presented in Cuba (Alejo Carpentier room, La Cabaña Fortress) during the 23rd Havana's International Book Fair.

[25] After residing in Chile,[26] she settled in Miami, as part of the Cuban exiled community, where she began working as an alternative content creator for CNN en Español in 2021.