Carolina Hospital is a poet, prose writer, and editor. Her works include the poetry collections Key West Nights and Other Aftershocks (Anhinga Press) and The Child of Exile: A Poetry Memoir (Arte Público Press), as well as Myth America and How to Get into Trouble (Anhinga Press), both collaborative collections with Maureen Seaton, Holly Iglesias, and Nicole Hospital-Medina; plus, the novel A Little Love, under the pen name C. C. Medina (Warner Books). She also collaborated with South Florida writers on the New York Times bestselling novel Naked Came the Manatee. She edited Los Atrevidos: Cuban American Writers (Ediciones Ellas/Linden Lane Press), a groundbreaking anthology of Cuban Americans writing in English, as well as A Century of Cuban Writers in Florida (Pineapple Press). She wrote the lyrics to the song cycle Greetings from Florida: Postcards from Paradise by composer and UF Assistant Professor Scott Lee