Andrea C. Martin - Winner of CuentoManía 2016 - "My favorite pastime when I was a child was a blank piece of paper and a pencil. Poems will just flow. At some points, I stapled them together in a notebook, put a cover, a title and my first book was born. I was not even ten. Later, I decided to put aside writing to experience the world. Nobody knew back then that I will live in eight different countries and will visit many others. Miami was never in my map. Destiny brought me here four years ago, and, to my greatest surprise, I found something real in this place. The dynamics of this city is captivating and a great source of inspiration. I write about everyday life. There is a bit of the persons I met along the way in my stories. People like you and me, ordinary people, are the ones that have the most extraordinary stories to tell.