Born in Havana, poet SANDRA M. CASTILLO moved to Miami with her family in 1970. She earned a B.A. and M.A. in creative writing from Florida State University. She is the author of My Father Sings to My Embarrassment (2002), selected by Cornelius Eady for the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. Her poems have been published in Cimarron Review, Midway Journal, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, PALABRA: A Magazine of Chicano & Latino Literary Art, The North American Review, The Connecticut Review, The Florida Review, y The Belleview Literary Review, among other outlets. Her work has appeared in various anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (2011), Approaching Literature in the 21st Century (2005), American Diaspora, the Poetry of Displacement (2002), Burnt Sugar, Contemporary Cuban Poetry in English & Spanish (2006), A Century of Cuban Writers in Florida (1996), and others. Castillo teaches at Miami Dade College in Florida.