Yaddyra Peralta is a poet and fiction writer; born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and has lived in Miami and New York City for much of her adult life. Her poetry and prose has appeared in Hinchas de Poesia, Lies and Poems (an anthology as part of Miami Art Museum's New Work Miami exhibition), Florida Book Review and the Miami Poetry Collective's Cent Journal series. She has been profiled in SunPost's 'People in the Community You Should Know', as one of Miami's 'Creatives' on the Miami New Times Cultist Blog, and on WLRN's Under the Sun.