Tres Abuelas y Una Mamá
Maureen Seaton, Carolina Hospital, Nicole Hospital-Medina, and Holly Iglesias — with two amazing chap books (Myth America and How to Get into Trouble) this collaborative group demonstrates the strength and creativity that can emerge from a shared spirit.
CAROLINA HOSPITAL’s books include the poetry collec-tions Key West Nights and Other Aftershocks (Anhinga Press), The Child of Exile: A Poetry Memoir (Arte Público Press), and Myth America (Anhinga Press); as well as the novel A Little Love, under the pen name C. C. Medina (Warner Books). She also edited A Century of Cuban Writers in Florida (Pineapple Press) and participated in the collaborative novel Naked Came the Manatee (G.P. Putnam’s Sons).
NICOLE HOSPITAL-MEDINA’s poetry appears in Myth America (Anhinga Press) and 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. Also a visual artist, her paintings have been featured in Linden Lane Magazine and on the cover of Myth America.
HOLLY IGLESIAS is the author of three poetry collections—Sleeping Things, Angles of Approach, and Souvenirs of a Shrunken World—and a critical work, Boxing Inside the Box: Women’s Prose Poetry. She received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council, the Edward Albee Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
MAUREEN SEATON authored many poetry collections, including The Sky Is an Elephant (Redacted Books); Undersea (Jackleg Press); Myth America (Anhinga Press); and Sweet World (Cavan Kerry Press), winner of the Florida Book Award. Over her long career, she received many honors including 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 Denise Duhamel and David Trinidad, she co-edited Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry (Soft Skull Press); and with Neil de la Flor, she co-edited Reading Queer: Poetry in a Time of Chaos (Anhinga Press). How to Get Into Trouble is dedicated to her.