YADDYRA PERALTA is a poet originally from Tegucigalpa, Honduras. She immigrated to Miami with her family at the age of 6. It was there that her passion for poetry began, sparked by an introduction to haiku from her first grade Spanish teacher. Her essays and poetry have since been featured in anthologies like Eight Miami Poets (O, Miami, 2015), The Breakbeat Poets, Vol. 4: LatiNext (Haymarket Books, 2020), and Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness (University Press of Florida, 2021), as well as in various publications including Bomb, The Florida Review, Ploughshares, and the Miami Herald. She holds an MFA in poetry from Florida International University. She brings to her role as O, Miami’s director of civic publishing her extensive experience working with writers of diverse backgrounds, as well as her six years of experience in the publishing industry.