Background
Cuba, Nan Brindley was born on August 25, 1947 in Temple, Texas, United States. Daughter of Hanes Hanby and Julia Martha (Barton) Brindley.
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Nan Brindley Cuba
Edit Profilewriter administrator non-profit arts organization
Nan Brindley Cuba, American Writer, administrator non-profit arts organization. Avocations: theater, opera, antiquing, roaming Texas hill country.
F C. Voting place official, Democrat, San Antonio, 1980's; panel member Discussion Censorship and the Arts, San Antonio Arts and Cultural AffairsDept., Museum of Art, 1990. Member National Organization for Women, Daedalus Fiction Writers.
Education
Associate of Arts, Sullins College, Bristol, Virginia, 1965-1967; Bachelor of Science, University Texas, 1967-1969; Master of Fine Arts, Warren Wilson College, 1989.
Career
Elementary school teacher, Parochial Schools, Dallas, San Antonio, 1970-1981;
freelance magazine writer, San Antonio, Texas, 1982-1987;
fiction writer and poetess, San Antonio, since 1986;
host television interview show, Rogers Cablevision, San Antonio, 1984-1988;
writer in the schools, Texas Commision on Arts, San Antonio, 1986-1991;
faculty English Department, University Tex, San Antonio, 1989-1992;
visiting writer, Graduate department St. Mary's U., San Antonio, Spring 1992;
co-creator of readers' theater and alternative school, Gemini Ink- non-profit arts organization, San Antonio, since 1992. Co-creator and consultant Writers' Institute at Our Lady of the Lake U., San Antonio, since 1986. Visiting writer graduate department, summer 1996.
Member Literature Peer Review Panel, Texas Commision on the Arts, Austin, 1990-1992. Advisory board Guadalupe Cultural Center Literature, San Antonio, 1990-1992, Jefferson Arts and Humanities Magnet School, San Antonio, 1996. Consultant Arts Teach Program San Antonio Arts and Cultural Affairs Department, 1991.
Faculty advisor literarymag. University Texas at San Antonio, 1991-1992.
Achievements
Membership
Voting place official, Democrat, San Antonio, 1980's. Panel member Discussion Censorship and the Arts, San Antonio Arts and Cultural AffairsDept., Museum of Art, 1990. Member National Organization for Women, Daedalus Fiction Writers.
Interests
Connections
Married Donald Lynn Cuba, July 10, 1967. Children: Donald Lynn, Junior, Julia Nan.
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Religion
Episcopalian
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Awards
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Recipient 1st place fiction award San Antonio Writer's Guild, 1983, 1st place investigative article San Antonio chapter Women in Communications, Inc., 1986. Alternate Dobie Paisano fellowshp University Texas and Texas Institute Letters, 1989, 1st runner up Dobie Paisano, University Texas, and Texas Institute Letters, 1991. Honoree at Pen Party Friends of San Antonio Public Library., 1984. Imagineer award Mind Science Foundation, 2000. Headliner in Education award Women in Communications, Inc., 2002.Recipient 1st place fiction award San Antonio Writer's Guild, 1983, 1st place investigative article San Antonio chapter Women in Communications, Inc., 1986. Alternate Dobie Paisano fellowshp University Texas and Texas Institute Letters, 1989, 1st runner up Dobie Paisano, University Texas, and Texas Institute Letters, 1991. Honoree at Pen Party Friends of San Antonio Public Library., 1984.
Imagineer award Mind Science Foundation, 2000. Headliner in Education award Women in Communications, Inc., 2002.