Lydia Martín is an award-winning writer who spent more than two decades covering Miami’s growth and cultural evolution for The Miami Herald. She won the Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest in 2016. Her writing has appeared in books such as Presenting Celia Cruz (Clarkson Potter, 2004); in literary journals such as Fifth Wednesday Journal and Origins Literary Journal; and in magazines such as Billboard, Esquire, InStyle, Oprah, Latina Hispanic and Out. She has an MFA in creative writing from Bennington College.