Cuban-American writer and educator, Nicole Hospital-Medina earned her MFA at the University of Miami where she now instructs writing. She is a poet-activist and a multi-faceted individual, embodying roles as a lecturer, artist and writer. She serves as a voice for the neurodivergent community through her literary and artistic contributions. Her poems can be read in the anthologies, Poems from the Lockdown, Feminine Rising: Voices of Power and Invisibility, Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence, as well as in CURA: A Journal of Art and Action, The Miami Herald, Linden Lane Magazine, Paper Nautilus, Blunderbuss Magazine, The Acentos Review, Canyon Voices and more. She is the inaugural winner of the Miami Herald O’Miami Haiku contest. Her paintings have been featured in Linden Lane Magazine. She collaborated to publish, Myth America, working with poets, Carolina Hospital, Holly Iglesias and Maureen Seaton. The cover features one of her paintings, “In My Apartment.” The group of poets then collaborated on their follow up collection, How to Get into Trouble. It features her cover art, “Boxed Lace.” Her latest project is an academic book called, Rhetorical Innovation with AI Integration: A Guide to Finding Your Most Authentic and Engaging Voice, Together with AI. The first edition is now available via Cognella Academic Publishing. She is also a Girl Scout Troop co-leader, mom, happy wife, surfer, dog lover and overall go-getter.