Praise for Tortillera
- Tortillera, The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed Selection, Sundress Press (November 2023)
- 2023 Julia Peterkin Literary Award Winner for Flash Fiction, “As to Your Comment That It Could Have Been Worse”
- 2022 International Latino Book Award Honorable Mention
- 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Award Honorable Mention
- 2022 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize Short List
- 2022 First Horizon Award Finalist
- 2018 Hudson Prize Finalist, Black Lawrence Press
Awards & Accomplishments
- Miami Individual Artists Stipend Grant, April 2022
- O, Miami Off-Shore Fellowship for Poets of the Caribbean Diaspora, 2021
- Pushcart Prize Nominee, “Never Did Say So,” Limp Wrist Review, 2021
- O, Miami Remembrance to Order Project, Selected Poet, March and April 2020
- Pushcart Prize Nominee, “Inheritance,” Woven Tale Press, 2020
- Winner of the Texas Review Press Breakthrough Prize: Florida, 2020
- Finalist, Andres Montoya Poetry Prize, 2020
- Writer in Residence, The Betsy Writer’s Room, Miami Beach, FL, May 2019
- O, Miami’s Teeny, Tiny Poetry Residence, The Wolfsonian Museum, Miami Beach, FL April 2019
- Pushcart Prize Nominee, “Uncoupled,” Linden Avenue Journal, 2018
- Nominee for Best of the Net, “Pennies,” Postcard Poems and Prose, 2018
- O, Miami, Teeny, Tiny Writing Residency, The Wolfsonian Museum, April 12th, 2018
- Unity Coalition Educational Leadership Award, September 2015
- Writer in Residence, The Betsy Writer’s Room, Miami Beach, FL July 2015
- Elizabeth George Foundation Poetry Fellowship Recipient, 2015
- Nominee for Best of the Net, “When You Ask About Karen, Lunch Ticket, 2014
- Selected Poet/Panelist, Pintura/Palabra Project: Our America, The Latino Presence in American Art in Conjunction with The Smithsonian and Letras Latinas, Notre Dame University, May 2014
- Nominee, LGBT Anthology, Lambda Literary Awards, This Assignment Is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching, Sibling Rivalry Press, August 2013
- ALA Honor Poet This Assignment Is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching, Sibling Rivalry Press, August 2013
- Nominee, Lambda Literary Award, This Assignment Is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching, Sibling, Rivalry Press, August 2013
- American Library Association Honorarium, Poet, This Assignment Is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching Sibling Rivalry Press, August 2013
reviews & interviews
- "1109: Never Did Say So by Caridad Moro-Gronlier," The Slowdown (May 2, 2024)
- "Caridad Moro-Gronlier - Poet Laureate of Miami-Dade," OUT SFL (April 26, 2024)
- “New Poet Laureate Wants to Help Tell Miami's Untold Stories,” Axios Miami (April 2nd, 2024)
- “Her Love of Words Began in Miami-Dade’s Public Libraries Now She’s the County’s Poet Laureate” The Miami Herald (April 1, 2024)
- Dante’s Old South Radio Show, NPR (November 2023)
- Locals to Know, The New Tropic (September 12th, 2023)
- Reclaiming the Word, Sundial Radio Show, WLRN/NPR (April 25th, 2023)
- The Hive, In Conversation with Julia Chiapella (March 14th, 2023)
- In Conversation with Dustin Brookshire, The Florida Local Artist & Writer Network (FLAWN) (February 2023)
- Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight (August 2022)
- Book Society, In Conversation with Luis Cantor (September 23, 2022)
- Queer News Tonight, Guest Anchor (November 2021-Present)
- Curated Conversations w/ Richard Blanco, Tortillera (July 27th, 2021)
- Queer News Tonight, Guest Anchor (June 24th, 2021)
- TRP Q&A: An Interview with Caridad Moro-Gronlier (June 15th, 2021)
- Rainbow Forum Podcast, Interview with Caridad Moro-Gronlier (April 25th, 2021)
- Queer News Tonight, Tortillera Interview (March 29th, 2021)
- UCTV, Tortillera Interview (February 3rd, 2021)
- Coastal Rainbow Forum (December 17th, 2020)
- Networking Maven Interview (November 30th, 2020)
- Miami Girl’s Foundation, Interview (November 13th, 2020)
- Brainwaves, YouTube Channel, Interview (October 30th, 2020)
- Purse Strings, Cranberry Radio, Interview (October 1st, 2020)
- “Latino Lit: Interview with Caridad Moro Gronlier,” Queen Mob’s Tea House (April 2016)