Caridad Moro-Gronlier was born in Los Angeles to Cuban immigrant parents who relocated to Miami in 1977 and has lived in South Florida with her family since the age of eight.

Career educator and community-driven poet, Caridad’s public work and literary engagement include collaboration with numerous South Florida stakeholders, including Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Miami Dade College, Barry University, Broward College, Florida International University (FIU) Honors College, Miami-Dade Public Library System, The Dranoff Society/Piano Slam, The Escribe Aqui Festival @ The Betsy’s Writer’s Room, The Deering Estate, Vizcaya, The Stonewall Library, The Wolfsonian Museum, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at FIU, O, Miami, The Cintas Foundation, Books & Books, Miami Book Fair, Reading Queer, and collaboration on "A Heroic Sonnet Crown for Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and the Residents of Miami-Dade County Series: We Who Rise from Saltwater, Let's Sing! and There’s a wave coming. One can hear it in the sky.”