Lydia Martín is an award-winning journalist and author who spent three decades covering Miami’s growth and cultural evolution for The Miami Herald. Her work has appeared in books such as Presenting Celia Cruz (Clarkson Potter) and Louis Vuitton City Guide, Miami; in literary journals such as Ploughshares, Fifth Wednesday Journal and Origins Literary Journal; and in magazines such as Billboard, Esquire, InStyle, Oprah, Latina (for which she also served as contributing editor), Hispanic and Out. She has B.A. in English and journalism from the University of Miami and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Bennington College.

She was part of the Miami Herald staff that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of 1992’s Hurricane Andrew; was twice a finalist for the Livingston Award, the largest all-media, general reporting prize in American journalism; and won a GLAAD Media Award for Spanish-language magazine writing, among other journalism awards. Her short story “The Adjustment Act” won the Ploughshares 2016 Emerging Writer’s contest; the short story “La Guagua”, published in Fifth Wednesday Journal, won the 2016 Editor’s Prize for Fiction and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.