An Evening with Carolina Hospital in conversation with Mia Leonin

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The poems in ALL ROADS LEAD TO HERE, Carolina Hospital’s third solo collection, expose tensions between loss and love, youth and wisdom, hope and reality. Transformative moments capture womanhood, the trauma of illness, exile, and nature’s forces interacting with the human through an exacting eye. The book pulls from the author’s experiences of displacement, which insistently lead her back to the sea. Hospital weaves past with present, offering glimpses into the trajectory of her life, while braiding images of the sea, a powerful and constant magnet. Readers accompany the poet through an intimate journey that simultaneously intrigues and moves. “All Roads Lead to Here is a salve in troubled times.” Mia Leonin.

Carolina Hospital is a poet, fiction writer, and editor. Her poetry collections include Key West Nights and Other Aftershocks (Anhinga Press) and The Child of Exile (Arte Público Press), as well as Myth America and How to Get into Trouble (Anhinga Press), collaborations with Maureen Seaton, Holly Iglesias, and Nicole Hospital-Medina. She published the novel A Little Love, under the pen name C. C. Medina (Warner Books) and collaborated on the novel Naked Came the Manatee (G. P. Putnam's Sons). She also wrote the lyrics to Greetings from Florida: Postcards from Paradise by composer Scott Lee to be released as a CD. Her newest works are the collection of haibun Bamboo Ghost Notes (Contagioso Press) and the poetry collection All Roads Lead to Here (Anhinga Press).

Mia Leonin is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Fable of the Pack‑Saddle Child, and a memoir, Havana and Other Missing Fathers (University of Arizona Press). Her recent work appears in Indiana Review and Southern Review. In 2025, Leonin received a Miami Individual Artists Grant from the Miami‑Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs. She teaches creative writing at the University of Miami.

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