Caridad Moro-Gronlier is the Poet Laureate of Miami-Dade County. Her 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 others.

Caridad is the author of three books of poetry, including Tortillera, the winner of the TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Prize published by Texas Review Press (2021), Visionware (Finishing Line Press, 2009) and a forthcoming book of poetry, As to Your Comment. She is also the editor of Grabbed: Poets and Writers Respond to Sexual Assault, Empowerment and Healing (Beacon Press, 2020). She serves as the Associate Editor for SWWIM Every Day, and as The Betsy’s Writer’s Room Poetry-Curator-At- Large. In 2023, she was Series Editor of From the Writer’s Room at The Betsy for a monthly column for The New Tropic (2023). In addition, her work has been featured in The Best American Poetry Blog, Verse Daily, NPR, The Hive, Split This Rock, Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry, and others. Caridad resides in Miami-Dade County with her wife and son.

She was also a Writer in Residence of the Betsy Writer's Room in 2022.