Nylda Dieppa is the author of Alborada: A Poetic Memoir Across Cultures, winner of a Royal Palm Award from the Florida Writers Association in 2015. The second, enhanced edition was published in May 2023 as Alborada: A Cross-Cultural Memoir in Poetry. It received an Honorable Mention for the Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award category from the 2024 International Latino Book Awards.

Nylda’s work has been published in Cadence, “Of Poets & Poetry,” “Somos en Escrito,” “La Respuesta,” and “America” magazines. She has read her poetry at various venues including the American University of Paris, the Polasek Museum in Winter Park, and Timucua Arts in Orlando (where she was the featured poet on November 17, 2024 at the Authentic Selves Poetry Open Mic.) She has also performed at Medgar Evers College, Cornelia Street Café, and The Ear Club in New York City as well as Casa Aboy and Poet’s Passage in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She has made presentations to writers groups on “Thinking About the Writing Life,” “Adding Emotional Depth to Your Writing,” “An Invitation to Write the Unspeakable,” “A Writer’s Guide to Genealogy,” “Breathing Life Into Your Characters,” “A Picture is Worth a Couple of Paragraphs at Least,” “How I told My Life in Poetry and How You Can Too!” and other topics.

A member of the Florida State Poets Association, Florida Writers Association (FWA), Las Comadres para las Américas, and International Society of Latino Authors, Nylda serves as Vice-president of the Orlando Area Poets Association as well as Vice-president of the Florida Writers Foundation (FWF) as its Vice-president. She led the Maitland Writers Group, affiliated with FWA, for nine years and published its monthly newsletter. Nylda publishes her newsletter “Word Sketches” and FWF’s “Sunshine State Literacy Spotlight, and is launching a book coaching service: “Word Sketches Book Coaching.”