
Carolina Hospital

Carolina Hospital is a poet, prose writer and editor. Her works include the poetry collections All Roads Lead to Here (Anhinga Press), Bamboo Ghost Notes (Contagioso Press), Key West Nights and Other Aftershocks (Anhinga Press), The Child of Exile: A Poetry Memoir (Arte Público Press), as well as Myth America and How to Get into Trouble (Anhinga Press), both collaborative collections with Maureen Seaton, Holly Iglesias, and Nicole Hospital-Medina. She also co-wrote with Carlos Medina the novel A Little Love, under the pen name C. C. Medina (Warner Books) and collaborated on the New York Times bestselling novel Naked Came the Manatee (G. P. Putnam's Sons). She edited Los Atrevidos: Cuban American Writers (Ediciones Ellas), a groundbreaking anthology of Cuban Americans writing in English, as well as A Century of Cuban Writers in Florida (Pineapple Press). Her work has been included in numerous national publications, such as the Norton’s Anthology of Latino Literature (W.W Norton), Praising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Occupy the Workplace (Lost Horse Press), and Rumors, Secrets and Lies: Narrative Poems about Pregnancy, Abortion, and Choice (Anhinga Press). In 2021 and 2022, she collaborated with 28 Miami poets to write heroic sonnets commissioned by the city, which were displayed in public places. Recently she wrote the lyrics to the song cycle Greetings from Florida: Postcards from Paradise by composer and UF Assistant Professor Scott Lee released as a CD.
All Roads Lead to Here
March 2026
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In her third full-length collection, Hospital is as much a devoted steward of the land as she is a dazzling poet. All Roads Lead to Here is steeped in the present tense of nature. It is a salve in troubled times.
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-Mia Leonin, author of Fable of the Pack- Saddle Child
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In her third full-length collection of poetry, All Roads Lead to Here,
In her third full-length collection of poetry, All Roads Lead to Here, Carolina Hospital is as much a devoted steward of the land as she is a dazzling poet. Hospital’s poems embroider themes of loss, dislocation, and injustice with Florida’s lush landscape whose particulars are rich and stunning. Yellow-bellied flycatchers and red bottlebrush blossoms heighten the senses without drawing attention from moments of humanity. All Roads Lead to Here is steeped in the present tense of nature. It is a salve in troubled times.
-Mia Leonin, author of Fable of the Pack-Saddle Child
Carolina Hospital is as much a devoted steward of the land as she is a dazzling poet. Hospital’s poems embroider themes of loss, dislocation, and injustice with Florida’s lush landscape whose particulars are rich and stunning. Yellow-bellied flycatchers and red bottlebrush blossoms heighten the senses without drawing attention from moments of humanity. All Roads Lead to Here is steeped in the present tense of nature. It is a salve in troubled times.
-Mia Leonin, author of Fable of the Pack-Saddle Child


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