Iliana Rosabal-Pérez is a poet, essayist, and researcher born in Santiago de Cuba in 1970. She earned a degree in Hispanic Philology from the Universidad de Oriente in 1993, followed by a master’s degree in Cuban and Caribbean Studies in 2004. For twenty-two years, she served as a professor of Art, Literature, Spanish Language, and Tourism Communication at the Universidad de Oriente. Additionally, she has been a jury member for literary and audiovisual contests, an organizer of film and literature events, a publisher, scriptwriter, and host of radio shows. Iliana double majored in Spanish and Digital Film Production, minoring in Communication Studies at Wayne State College. She is a member of the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society and has received several mentions and awards in literary competitions, including the Grand Prize for Poetry at the “Palma Real” Contest in Torino, Italy (2001), and the Second Prize of the Jury in the XIV Floral Games in Santiago de Cuba (2009). Her essays and research have been published in various Cuban cultural and academic journals. Iliana has published two poetry collections: Escrituras del límite (Scriptures of the Limit, Santiago de Cuba, 2007) and Lluvia en las dunas (Rain on the Dunes, Houston, TX, 2019), along with the artistic essay “Seven Sculptors of Santiago de Cuba” (Trinidad and Tobago, 2010). She is currently a Spanish Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.