Caridad Moro-Gronlier
Caridad Moro-Gronlier was born in 1969 in Los Angeles to Cuban immigrant parents who relocated to Miami, Florida, in 1977. She holds a BA and MA in English literature from Florida International University (FIU) and is an English educator who has taught in Miami-Dade public schools for the past thirty-five years.
Moro-Gronlier is the author of four books of poetry, including Through the Lens and As to Your Comment, forthcoming from Texas Review Press in 2026 and 2027, respectively; Tortillera (Texas Review Press, 2021), winner of the TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Prize; and Visionware (Finishing Line Press, 2009). She is also the editor of Grabbed: Poets and Writers Respond to Sexual Assault, Empowerment and Healing (Beacon Press, 2020).
Moro-Gronlier serves as the senior editor for SWWIM Every Day, an online daily poetry journal for women-identifying poets, and as The Betsy Hotel’s Writer’s Room Poetry-Curator-at-Large. In 2023, she was the series editor of “From the Writer’s Room at The Betsy,” a monthly column for the daily newsletter The New Tropic.
Moro-Gronlier has held literary engagements at various locations in South Florida, including Miami-Dade College, Barry University, Broward College, Florida International University–Honors College, the Miami-Dade Public Library System, The Stonewall Library, The Wolfsonian Museum at FIU, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at FIU, CINTAS Foundation, Books & Books, Miami Book Fair, and Reading Queer. She also collaborated on “A Heroic Sonnet Crown for Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and the Residents of Miami-Dade County.”
Moro-Gronlier is the recipient of several honors, including a 2023 Julia Peterkin Literary Award, a 2022 International Latino Book Award honorable mention, a 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Award honorable mention, a 2022 First Horizon Award finalist, four Miami-Dade Individual Artists grants from the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs from 2022 to 2025, a 2015 Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, and a 2007 Florida Individual Artist Fellowship in Poetry.
Moro-Gronlier lives with her wife and son in Miami.