Madari Pendas is a Cuban-American writer and poet living in Miami. Her
works focus on the surreal and absurd aspects that accompany living in an
exile community, and the inherited identity crisis of being a Latina in
America. She has received literary awards from Florida International
University, in the categories of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
Her work has appeared in The Accentos Review, Pank Magazine, The New
Tropic, Politicsay, Sinister Wisdom, Junto Magazine, WLRN (Miami's NPR
affiliate), and The Miami New Times.
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