Veeram's subject was Siva.
Sandra M. Castillo is a poet and South Florida resident .. poet. poet. She was born in Havana , Cuba and emigrated on one of the last of President Lyndon B. Johnson 's Freedom Flights .. Cuba. Cuba. Havana. Havana. Freedom Flights. Freedom Flights. She attended Florida State University , receiving both a Bachelor 's and ultimately Master 's degree in Creative Writing .. Florida State University. Florida State University. Creative Writing. Creative writing. -LSB- Castillo has said that she is haunted by all things Cuban and that much of what she remembers about her Cuban childhood , those eight years of her life , linger in her memory like photographs , like ghosts .. Her Tio Berto , to whom she has made repeated references , was an amateur photographer whose photographs documented not only her family 's past but a Cuban life .. Such photographs captivated her and `` formed the basis of -LSB- her -RSB- aesthetic . '' -RSB-. She writes about loss , history , gender , language and explores issues of memory .. Her work `` depicts contradictory worlds , the memory of a homeland and memory politics while examining the ordinary reality of exile .