Author
Madari Pendas is a Cuban-American writer, painter, and poet living in Miami. She received her MFA from Florida International University where she was a Lawrence Sanders Fellow and won the Academy of American Poets Prize (2021).
Her forthcoming poetry book, She Loves Me, She Loves me Not, can be pre-ordered here.
Her works focus on the surreal aspects that accompany the exile experience and the ways Latinidad intersects with other salient parts of her identity. Her first book, Crossing the Hyphen (Tolsun 2021), explored Caribbean identity and family lore through the prism of language and immigration. Her work has appeared in PANK, CRAFT, The Masters Review, and more.
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