​Letisia Cruz is a Cuban American writer and artist. She is the author of Bigwig's Illustrated Guide to Birds (Tolsun Books, 2024), Migrations & Other Exiles (selected by Dzvinia Orlowsky as winner of the 2022 Idaho Prize for Poetry, Lost Horse Press, 2023), and The Lost Girls Book of Divination (Tolsun Books, 2018). She is the recipient of a 2022 artist grant from the St. Petersburg Arts Alliance and was selected as a 2022 Dali Dozen Emerging Artist for her project Rituales: An Exploration of Faith in the Caribbean. Her writing and artwork have appeared in Poetry Daily, [PANK], Ninth Letter, The Acentos Review, Gulf Stream, Saw Palm, Third Coast, and Duende, among others. She is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University’s MFA program and lives in Saint Petersburg, Florida with her partner, their three cats, and several dozen plants.