About Anna M. Figueroa
Poetry and fiction shaped by tide, light, and the quiet interior life.
Anna M. Figueroa lives and writes from both Vero Beach and Miami, Florida, where she blends her rich life experience with a deep commitment to storytelling that resonates. As a mother, entrepreneur, and breast-cancer survivor, she has forged a path marked by resilience, reinvention, and the bold decision to give voice to the complexities of life.
The work
A voice rooted in place—and attentive to what changes.
Prior works include the novel “Intimate Strangers”, a collection of poetry “A Woman Full Grown”, and a collection of Spanish language poems “Una Mujer en el Camino”.
Anna’s writing is grounded in lived reality: she brings the beauty and serenity of Vero Beach, the vibrant pulse of Miami, her deep Cuban American roots and the universal experience of womanhood into sharp focus. She invites readers to stretch beyond what is comfortable, to embrace life’s many stages, and to own their voice and their story.
Anna now presents her new book, “19 Poems from Vero Beach”, a collection of poems written from Vero Beach, that mirror both the place and the woman she in this moment, along with poems from other moments and a selection of poems in Spanish.
On the page
How Anna writes
With each book, Anna M. Figueroa draws upon her own history—of survival and transformation—and offers up poems and stories that are intimate yet expansive, rooted yet reaching for possibility. Readers will find in her work both the familiar and the unexpected, the challenge and the hope, and women who are not afraid to ask: Who will I be, now that I have become myself?
Poetry that holds contradiction
Fiction built from intimacy and silence
Bilingual sensibility—English and Spanish
Coastal Florida as setting and character
A note from Anna
Why these stories
I’ve always been drawn to what lives just beneath the surface—what people carry quietly, what they don’t say, what they almost say.
Living near the Atlantic has taught me to trust rhythm: the return of waves, the way light changes a room, the patience of weather. I write in that same spirit—listening for the line that feels true, and following it until it opens into something larger than my own experience.
“The ocean does not ask permission to arrive—it simply comes, bearing salt and memory, and calls it home.”
Anna M. Figueroa
My books move between poetry and fiction, between English and Spanish, between the intimate and the universal human experience. If you’ve ever felt the pull of a place you can’t quite explain—or a connection to someone that changes everything—I hope you’ll find a little piece of you in the pages of my work.
Words readers return to
A few reflections that capture the atmosphere of Anna’s work.
★★★★★
“These poems feel like standing at the shoreline—beautiful, unsettling, and strangely comforting.”
Reader
Poetry lover
★★★★★
“Quietly devastating in the best way. I kept thinking about the characters long after the last page.”
Book club member
Literary fiction
★★★★★
“A voice that’s both intimate and expansive—like a conversation you didn’t know you needed.”
Reader
Newsletter subscriber
About
About Anna
Anna is a mother, a doting grandmother, an author and an entrepreneur. She writes poetry because it is the way she makes sense of the world. She writes fiction because it brings her joy.
The Books
Four titles, four doors into the work.
19 Poems from Vero Beach
Poetry collection
A Woman Full Grown
Poetry collection
Intimate Strangers
Novel
Una Mujer en el Camino
Spanish-language work
Press & Reviews
A few words from readers.
★★★★★
“Figueroa writes with a precision that is almost painful in its beauty. Every poem earns its place.”
Reader
Goodreads
★★★★★
“Figueroa writes with a precision that is almost painful in its beauty. Every poem earns its place.”
Reader
Goodreads
★★★★★
“Figueroa writes with a precision that is almost painful in its beauty. Every poem earns its place.”
Reader
Goodreads