ANNA FIGUEROA

Anna M. Figueroa

Anna M. Figueroa lives and writes from Miami, Florida, where she blends her rich life experience with a deep commitment to storytelling that resonates. As a mother, entrepreneur and breast-cancer survivor, she has forged a path marked by resilience, reinvention and the bold decision to give voice to the complexities of women’s lives. 

Anna’s writing is grounded in lived reality: she brings the streets of Miami, the pulse of her Cuban roots and the universal experience of womanhood into sharp focus. Whether writing in English or Spanish, she invites readers into characters who dare to stretch beyond what’s comfortable, to embrace change, to own their voice and their story. As she herself has said in her blog, “our strength is not determined by our rigidity, but rather by our ability to grow and to stretch and to evolve.” (Midnight Thoughts)

With each book, Anna M. Figueroa draws upon her own history—of survival and transformation—and offers up stories and poetry that are intimate yet expansive, rooted yet reaching for possibility. Readers will find in her writing both the familiar and the unexpected, the challenge and the hope, and women who are not afraid to ask: Who will I be, now that I’ve become myself?