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Miguel Ángel Olivé Iglesias is member, Editor-in-Chief of the Canada Cuba Literary Alliance (CCLA) and its President in Cuba. He also does translation, proofreading, reviewing and revision for the CCLA, along with compilation and anthologizing. He is a member of the Mexican Association of Language and Literature Professors, VP of the William Shakespeare Studies Center and member of the Canadian Studies Department of the Holguín University in Cuba.
Born in 1965 in Bayamo, Cuba, he travelled to Holguín City in 1977 for his Junior, Senior High and College studies. Today he is an Associate Professor at the University of Holguín, with a Bachelor's Degree in Education, Major in English, and a Master's Degree in Pedagogical Sciences.
He has been teaching for over thirty years and writing reviews, poems and stories in Spanish and in English. Miguel has written and published numerous academic papers in Cuba, Mexico, Spain and Canada. So far he has published fifty-two poems, three short stories and six critical reviews of poetry books and novels in different issues: The Ambassador, official flagship of the CCLA; The Envoy, official newsletter of the CCLA; The Bridges Series Books, published by Hidden Brook Press and SandCrab Books; Adelaide Group in New York, and other anthologies by Hidden Brook Press and SandCrab Books. His themes touch mostly upon women, people, life, family, love, nature, and human values.
The author is currently involved in many CCLA projects. He works in the Teacher Education English Department as a professor of English and English Stylistics. He is also Head of the English Language Discipline. He uses his academic papers, essays, stories and poems in class for reading, debating and practicing the language, adding a didactic and formative element to his scientific and literary production. He also does poetry reading in on-campus and community activities.
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