Madari PendasMadari Pendas is a Cuban-American writer, translator, and painter. She is the author of Crossing the Hyphen (Tolsun 2022). Her work has appeared in CRAFT, PANK, Smokelong Quarterly, The Masters Review, Oyster River Pages, and more. Pendas has receive awards from the Academy of American Poets, O, Miami, as well as two Pushcart nominations. She was a Lawrence Sanders Fellow at Florida International University where she received her MFA in fiction. Read More Read Less