Omar Figueras, Reading Queer Advisory Board Member, lives in Miami Beach and has a Master’s of Fine Arts degree from Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky where he was a student fiction editor at The Louisville Review. His work has been published in Penumbra Literary Magazine and he has read for the Miami-based storytelling series, Lip Service. Currently, he is a fiction co-editor for Blood Lotus An Online Literary Journal and is completing a collection of short stories and a poetry chapbook reflecting on his experiences growing up in South Florida and Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.