Caridad Moro-Gronlier is the Cuban American author of TORTILLERA, the winner of the Texas Review Press Southern Poetry Breakthrough Prize for Florida (2021) and Visionware (2009) published by Finishing Line Press as part of its New Women's Voices Series. She is a contributing Editor of Grabbed: Writers Respond to Sexual Assault, Empowerment and Healing published by Beacon Press (2020) and an Associate Editor for SWWIM Every Day, an online daily poetry journal. Moro-Gronlier is the recipient of an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant and a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship in poetry. Her work has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes, several Best of the Net designations, and a Lambda Literary Award. A career educator, she resides in Miami, FL with her wife and son.

Books by Caridad Moro-Gronlier:

Other poems on the web by Caridad Moro-Gronlier:
"At Least I Didn't Rape You"
"Waiting to be Discharged from the Maternity Ward"
"Never Did Say So"

Caridad Moro-Gronlier's Website.

Caridad Moro-Gronlier on Twitter.

About Tortillera:

"In this arresting collection, Caridad Moro-Gronlier renders a vivid and astounding portrait of her womanhood with all its complex intersections and contradictions: her loving resistance against cultural expectations as a daughter of Cuban exiles; her fraught triumph over misogyny; her traumatic healing from sexual assault, her joyful fears of motherhood; and her terrifying courage of coming out and embracing her sexuality. Moro-Gronlier's unflinching yet vulnerable voice joins the chorus of luminaries the likes of June Jordan, Adrienne Rich, and Gloria Anzaldúa, together singing rebellion in harmony with love."
—Richard Blanco

"An unflinching, delicious, and fierce anthem to Cuban-American and queer identities, Tortillera reclaims the homophobic slur of its title, engaging and subverting the canonical tradition of the love poem. Language, in its topographies and powers and failures, lies at the heart of these poems' investigations: Moro writes, 'of loss / the third language / we speak at home.' Tortillera confronts 'poverty's rumble,' familial connections, sometimes fraught, sometimes endearingly tender. 'Sifting through the rubble' of fragmented romantic and parental relationships, the book is brilliant in its critique of beauty standards and machismo. I love Caridad Moro's work, which reverberates with flavors of Miami—guarapo, harina con huevo frito, yuca, lechón—these are poems I admire and applaud, poems I read and reread with a ferocious appetite."
—Jenny Molberg