Letisia Cruz is a Cuban American writer and artist, born in Camajuani, Cuba and raised in Union City, New Jersey. Her work explores themes of displacement and ritual rooted in the natural world, examining how the body carries stories across lands.​ She is the author of Bigwig's Illustrated Guide to Birds (Tolsun Books, 2024), Migrations & Other Exiles, which was the 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 art project Rituales: An Exploration of Faith in the Caribbean, which explores the rituals that shape belonging. She received her MFA from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her writing and artwork have appeared in Poetry Daily, A Dozen Nothing, Ninth Letter, The Acentos Review, [PANK], Gulf Stream, Saw Palm, Third Coast, Duende, and elsewhere. She lives in Florida with her partner and their cats.

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Publications

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• “Bigwig’s Illustrated Guide to Birds,” Tolsun Books, 2024

• “Migrations & Other Exiles,” winner of the 2022 Idaho Prize for Poetry, Lost Horse Press, 2023

• “The Lost Girls Book of Divination,” Tolsun Books, 2018

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Anthologized Poetry and Nonfiction

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• “Nothing of Beauty,” Chameleon Chimera: An Anthology of Florida Poets, Purple Ink Press, 2025

• “Here and Now,” The Book of Life After Death: Essays & Poems, Tolsun Books, 2023

• “The First Tatoo,” No, You Tell It! 10-Year Anthology, Palm Circle Press, 2023

• “At Enriqueta's Café,” Waterproof: Evidence of a Miami Worth Remembering, O, Miami, 2021

• “The Awakening: Your Physical Path in the Body: Pentacles,” Listen Here, Jackalope: A Tolsun Books Anthology, Tolsun Books, 2019

• “Ghosts,” Gateways, Serving House Books, 2018

• “With Any Luck,” From Pantyhose to Spandex: Writers on the Job Redux, Serving House Books, 2017

• “Miami, Florida,” Reaching Beyond the Saguaros: A Collaborative Prosimetric Travelogue, Serving House Books, 2017

• “Key West Postcard,” There is This Place I Know, Serving House Books, 2015​​

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