MIAMI – The Miami-Dade County Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Advisory Board, under the Office of Community Advocacy, held a special book reading on June 26 as the last event celebrating #PrideMonth. Caridad Moro- Gronlier spoke about her new book: Tortillera: Poems and exploration of what it means to be gay while Cuban. The live book reading, and discussion took place at Miami Dade Public Library System Main Branch in downtown, Miami.

Caridad Moro-Gronlier is a Cuban American lesbian poet born in Los Angeles to Cuban immigrant parents. She is the author of Tortillera, the winner of the TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Prize for Florida (Texas Review Press 2021) and Visionware (Finishing Line Press 2009) as part of its New Women's Voices Series. She is a contributing editor of Grabbed: Writers Respond to Sexual Assault (Beacon Press 2020) and associate editor for SWWIM Every Day, an online daily poetry journal.

Moro-Gronlier is also a career educator who works as a professor of English for Florida International University, Miami-Dade College, and the Miami Dade County Public Schools. Teaching has earned her awards and accolades such as the Unity Coalition Educational Leadership Award, the 2016 Francisco Walk M-DCPS Teacher of the Year Award, and three College Board AP Summer Institute Fellowships.

The LGBTQ Advisory Board promotes Miami-Dade County as a place where LGBTQ-friendly businesses, residents and visitors can live, work and be part of a diverse and inclusive community. Miami-Dade County attracts more than one million LGBTQ visitors each year as well as individuals, businesses and professionals seeking to relocate to this community.

For more information, please email LGBTQ Program Director Gabriel Paez or call 305-375-4935. For the high-resolution pictures or video, please email Communications and Media Director Griselle Marino at [email protected]