MYTH aMERICA POETS

ICAROLINA HOSPITAL is the author of the poetry collections Key West Nights and Other Aftershocks (Anhinga Press) and The Child of Exile: A Poetry Memoir (Arte Público Press); the novel A Little Love, under the pen name C. C. Medina (Warner Books); and No Excuses! A Brief Survival Guide to Freshman Composition (Sonoran Desert Books). She edited Los Atrevidos: Cuban American Writers (Linden Lane Press) and A Century of Cuban Writers in Florida (Pineapple Press). Her work has appeared in numerous national publications, such as the Norton Anthology of Latino Literature and Bedford/St. Martin’s Florida Literature.

NICOLE HOSPITAL-MEDINA earned her MFA at the University of Miami where she now instructs writing. Her poems appear in the anthologies, Poems from the Lockdown, Feminine Rising: Voices of Power and Invisibility, Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence, as well as in CURA: A Journal of Art and Action, The Miami Herald, Paper Nautilus, Blunderbuss Magazine, The Acentos Review, Canyon Voices and more. She is the winner of the 2011 Miami Herald O’Miami Haiku contest. Also a visual artist, her paintings have been featured in Linden Lane Magazine.

HOLLY IGLESIAS’ work includes three collections of poetry — Sleeping Things, Angles of Approach, and Souvenirs of a Shrunken World — and a critical work, Boxing Inside the Box: Women’s Prose Poetry. She has translated the work of Cuban poets Caridad Atencio and Nicolás Padrón. She has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council, the Edward Albee Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

MAUREEN SEATON has authored many poetry collections, both solo and collaborative, most recently, Sweet World (CavanKerry Press, 2019), which went on to win the Florida Book Award for poetry. Her awards include the Lambda Literary Award, an NEA, and the Pushcart. A memoir, Sex Talks to Girls (University of Wisconsin, 2008, 2018), also garnered a “Lammy.” With Neil de la Flor, she co-edited Reading Queer: Poetry in a Time of Chaos (Anhinga Press, 2018).