Yaddyra Peralta is a poet. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming in Jai-Alai, Abe's Penny, Tigertail, Hinchas de Poesia, the Miami Poetry Collective’s Cent Journal series, and Lies and Truth, the poetry supplement to the Tabloid series accompanying Miami Art Museum’s 2010 New Work Miami exhibition. She received her MFA in creative writing from Florida International University.