Rosa Lowinger is a Cuban-born art con­ser­va­tor who works in Mia­mi and Los Ange­les. The author of Trop­i­cana Nights: The Life and Times of the Leg­endary Cuban Night­club (2005) and Promis­ing Par­adise: Cuban Allure Amer­i­can Seduc­tion (2016). She is a grad­u­ate of Bran­deis, NYU’s Insti­tute of Fine Arts, and was the 2009 Rome Prize Fel­low at the Amer­i­can Acad­e­my in Rome.