Lillian Guerra is the author of many scholarly articles, works of public history, creative writing and five books of history: Popular Expression and National Identity in Puerto Rico (University Press of Florida, 1998), The Myth of Jose¿ Marti¿: Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba (University of North Carolina Press, 2005), and Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption and Resistance, 1959-1971 (University of North Carolina Press, 2012), which received the 2014 Bryce Wood Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association, its most prestigious prize for a book on Latin America across all fields. Dr. Guerra's fourth book, published by Yale University Press in 2018, is titled Heroes, Martyrs and Political Messiahs in Revolutionary Cuba, 1946-1958. In 2023, Guerra published Patriots and Traitors in Revolutionary Cuba, 1961-1981, the third of her trilogy on the Cuban Revolution, with the University of Pittsburgh Press. From 2013-2024, she served as the Book Review Editor of the journal Cuban Studies.