Yaddyra Peralta, a poet originally from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, immigrated to Miami with her family at the age of six. It was there that her passion for poetry began, sparked by an introduction to haiku from her first-grade Spanish teacher. Her essays and poetry have since been featured several anthologies including Eight Miami Poets (O, Miami, 2015), The Breakbeat Poets, Vol. 4: LatiNext (Haymarket Books, 2020), Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment & Healing (Beacon Press, 2020) and Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness (University Press of Florida, 2021), as well as in various publications including BOMB, The Florida Review, Ploughshares, and The Miami Herald. Yaddyra holds an MFA in Poetry from Florida International University and is O, Miami's Director of Civic Publishing. This artist's residency was curated as part of Gen '305' and The Betsy's Escribe Aqui, by MIami Dade Poet Laureate, Caridad Moro-Gronlier.