Lily Prellezo's first book Seagull One: The Amazing True Story of Brothers to the Rescue, has been selected for the Miami Book Fair International 2010. She is currently working on a historical-fiction novel based on the life of a 101 year-old Cuban-American woman.

Prellezo is a freelance writer and sought-after editor for Miami business executives. She contributed to The Catholic Voice from 1987-1997, and is part of the speakers bureau for the Archdiocese of Miami. She has fifteen years public speaking experience and is fluent in English and Spanish.

Prellezo was a volunteer teacher for eighteen years and was the editor of Beyond The Grotto, her alumnae newsletter. Prellezo has participated for the past four years in the Eckerd College Writers Conference-Writers in Paradise directed by Dennis LeHane and Sterling Watson. She has also attended the Writer's Institute at Miami Dade College and is the member of a writer's critique group. She graduated from FIU with a major in English.

Lily and her husband Steve, their two daughters, and two grandsons live in Miami, Florida.

Photo courtesy of May Bagnell Photography.

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Painting by Roberto Cernuda, titled "Brothers to the Rescue"