Lolita Stewart-White is a poet, filmmaker and educator who lives and works in Miami. Her poems have appeared in the Iowa Review, Callaloo, Rattle, and Beloit Poetry Journal. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, South Florida Cultural Consortium and Sundance Screenwriters Lab. She is a Pushcart Award nominee and the winner of the Paris-American Poetry Prize. Her films have been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Moca) in Miami, Pan African-American Film and Arts Festival at the Magic Johnson Theater in Los Angeles and the Seattle Langston Hughes Film Festival.