Chely Lima is a queer Cuban American writer of novels, poetry, and plays, as well as a photographer, editor, and screenwriter.

Ernesto Daranas Serrano is a Cuban filmmaker and screenwriter. He wrote and directed the feature films Los Dioses Rotos, Conducta and Sergio & Serguéi. All three films were Cuba's submissions for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Academy Awards.

Delia Fiallo is a Cuban author and screenwriter who lives in Miami, Florida. She is one of the most distinguished representatives of the contemporary romance novel, dabbling in various genres which appear in her literary output.
Eduardo del Llano Rodriguez is a Cuban writer, university professor, film director, producer and screenwriter.

Leonardo de la Caridad Padura Fuentes is a Cuban novelist and journalist. As of 2007, he is one of Cuba's best-known writers internationally. In his native Spanish, as well as in English and some other languages, he is often referred to by the shorter form of his name, Leonardo Padura. He has written screenplays, two books of short stories, and a series of detective novels translated into 10 languages. In 2012, Padura was awarded the National Prize for Literature, Cuba's national literary award and the most important award of its kind. In 2015, he was awarded the Premio Principe de Asturias de las Letras of Spain, one of the most important literary prizes in the Spanish-speaking world and usually considered as the Iberoamerican Nobel Prize.

Aurelio Voltaire Hernández, professionally known as Aurelio Voltaire or simply as Voltaire, is a Cuban-American singer, songwriter, and musician. His professional name is his given middle name.

Juan Carlos Zaldívar is a filmmaker and video artist who was born in Cuba. Zaldivar has lived in the United States of America since 1980 with directing credits including "90 Miles", which aired nationally on PBS/"P.O.V.", and was featured in the book Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories.