Toba Singer, author of Fernando Alonso, the Father of Cuban Ballet (University Press of Florida 2013), and First Position: a Century of Ballet Artists (Praeger 2007), and articles by her appear in dance media in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, and Cuba.Singer was selected as University Press of Florida's Author Representative at the 2013 Miami International Book Fair, and Fernando Alonso, the Father of Cuban Ballet was nominated for the Latin American Student Association (LASA) Bryce Award, the de la Torre Research and Dance Scholars Award, and the Commonwealth Club California Book Award.