Beatriz F. Fernandez is the author of Stone & Star: Poems in Voices Across Time (Old Scratch Press, 2026), Simultaneous States (Bainbridge Island Press, 2025), The Ocean Between Us (Backbone Press, 2017) and Shining from a Different Firmament (Finishing Line Press, 2015) which she presented at the Miami Book Fair International. She has read her poetry on WLRN, South Florida’s NPR news station and was the grand prize winner of the 2nd annual Writer’s Digest Poetry Award. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart prize in 2015, 2017, 2020 and 2025. Her short fiction has been awarded Honorable Mentions in Writers of the Future contests.