Yaddyra Peralta

Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer

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Author's Bio

Yaddyra Peralta's poems and essays have appeared in Miami Rail, Ploughshares, Jai Alai, Abe's Penny, The Miami Herald, and The Florida Review. Her work has been featured in the following anthologies: Eight Miami Poets (Jai Alai Books, 2015), The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext (Haymarket Books, 2020), Grabbed: Poets and Writers Respond to Sexual Assault (Beacon Press, 2020), and Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness. She teaches creative writing and is a book editor.

Education:

Florida International University MFA

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Anthologies:

Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness (University of Florida Press, 2021)

Waterproof: Evidence of a Miami Worth Remembering (Jai-Alai Books, 2021)

Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment & Healing (Beacon Press, 2020)

Journals:

Florida Review

Miami Herald

Tinderbox Poetry Journal

Poetry

Anthologies:

The Breakbeat Poets Vol 4: LatiNext (Haymarket Books, 2020)

Eight Miami Poets (Jai-Alai Books, 2015)

Ghazals for James Foley (Hinchas Press, 2015)

Journals:

Hinchas de Poesia

ploughshares

SWWIM Every Day

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Fluent in:

English, Spanish

Born in:

Honduras

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Last update: Apr 22, 2022