Caridad Moro-Gronlier
Caridad Moro-Gronlier is a Cuban-American poet and educator. She was born in Los Angeles and has lived in South Florida since 1977. She holds a BA and MA in English literature from Florida International University. Although music and literature were always important to her, she began writing poetry in earnest after the birth of her son in the 2000s. Her work explores identity, queerness, family, and cultural heritage.
Moro-Gronlier is the author of multiple poetry collections, including Through the Lens: Ekphrastic Poems (Texas Review Press, 2026) and Tortillera (Texas Review Press, 2021), winner of the TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Prize. She is also a contributing editor of Grabbed: Poets and Writers Respond to Sexual Assault, Empowerment and Healing (Beacon Press, 2020). Her work has been featured with NPR, The Slowdown, Verse Daily, The Best American Poetry Blog, Split This Rock, The Hive, and Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry. Her collection As to Your Comment will be published with Texas Review Press in 2027.
Moro-Gronlier was Poet Laureate of Miami-Dade County from 2024 through 2026, a role for which she received an Academy of American Poets Laureate fellowship. Her community-facing public literary work emphasizes collaboration, accessibility, and civic engagement. She has partnered with institutions including the Miami-Dade Public Library System, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Vizcaya, the Wolfsonian Museum, the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at FIU, O, Miami, the Miami Book Fair, Books & Books, The Cintas Foundation, Reading Queer, the Stonewall National Museum & Archives, the Deering Estate, and many South Florida colleges and universities. She also collaborated on the A Heroic Sonnet Crown for Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and the Residents of Miami-Dade County series.
Moro-Gronlier’s honors include a Julia Peterkin Literary Award, an International Latino Book Award Honorable Mention, an Eric Hoffer Book Award Honorable Mention, a 2022 First Horizon Award finalist, four Miami-Dade Individual Artists (MIA) Grants, an Elizabeth George Foundation grant, and a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship in Poetry. She serves as Senior Editor of SWWIM Every Day, an online poetry journal for women-identifying writers, and as Poetry Curator-at-Large for The Betsy’s Writer’s Room. In 2023, she was Series Editor of From the Writer’s Room at The Betsy, a monthly column for The New Tropic. She lives in Miami with her wife and son.
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Audio/Text: Moro-Gronlier performs her poem "Never Did Say So" on The Slowdown
Text: Read poems by Moro-Gronlier at the Academy of American Poets
Video: Moro-Gronlier reads her poem "Miami Does Not Ask Who You Are" at the Knight Media Forum