" You are your best thing."
Carmen Misé Menendez
Educator, Writer, Wife, Mom
Hello and Welcome!
I’m an educator based in Miami, FL—a city that faces many socio-economic and environmental challenges. This space is dedicated to sharing my favorite things. I’m an insatiable reader with a passion for film, particularly Horror (including Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers, and Sci-Fi). I also write non-fiction and poetry, and I love spending time outdoors with my family and friends. I’m a proud mom of two little girls and a dog named Hamlet. Oh, and for the record, I believe in aliens—and yes, the Earth is round!
Learn more about Carmen
Carmen Misé Menendez (she/her/ella) is an Assistant Professor of Composition and Literature at Miami Dade College North Campus in the English and Communications Department, where she co-advises Sigma Kappa Delta, the English Honors Society, and Pride Unity. She also co-chairs the annual National Poetry Month celebration. The Miami-Dade Public Library System invited Carmen to kick off their Art and Sculpture Lecture Series, where she lectured on national identity, memory, and Counter-Monuments—a theory she explored in her master's thesis and continues to explore in her writings.
Her most recent non-fiction work includes “Inherited Trauma and Memories That Are Not Our Own,” published in the online magazine Luna Luna. Carmen’s latest poetry works include "Realization," published in Sonder Magazine, a journal of cultural criticism, comment, and creative writing; “When Mangos Last in my Backyard Bloom’d” in Waterproof: Evidence of a Miami Worth Remembering; and “Ode to the Guava Pastelitos” in the zine Miami Grubs: Meals and Memories.
In addition to her academic and literary achievements, Carmen is the author of a new bilingual children’s book, "A Cat Almost Stole Mom's Car", which explores the themes of adventure, compassion, forgiveness, and family.
