Laura Roque is the daughter of Cuban refugees and was raised in Hialeah, Florida. She is currently a Wallis Annenberg fellow at the University of Southern California and a PhD candidate in their creative writing program. Her fiction has appeared in Kenyon Review, Glimmer Train, and her novel-in-progress, a Cuban-American epic centered on a family of discordant women, has received support from the AAUW, as a project important to advances in equity for women and girls.