Mia Leonin is the author of two poetry collections, Braid and Unraveling the Bed  (Anhinga Press), and the memoir, Havana and Other Missing Fathers (University of Arizona Press). A third collection of poetry, Chance Born, will be released by Anhinga Press in April of this year, and in 2017, BkMk Press will publish Fable of the Paddle Sack Child, a book-length poem,. Leonin has published poetry and creative nonfiction in New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, Witness, North American Review, River Styx, Chelsea, and others. She teaches creative writing at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.​