About vanessa!

Vanessa Mártir is a NYC based writer, educator and writing coach. She is currently completing her memoir, A Dim Capacity for Wings, and chronicles the journey at vanessamartir.blog. A five-time VONA/Voices and two-time Tin House fellow, Vanessa’s work has been widely published, including in The Rumpus, Bitch Magazine, Smokelong Quarterly, the VONA/Voices Anthology, Dismantle, and the NYTimes Bestseller ​Not That Bad, edited by Roxane Gay. Vanessa is the founder of the #52essays2017 challenge, and creator of the Writing Our Lives Workshop, which she teaches in NYC and online. She has served as guest editor of Aster(ix) and The James Franco Review. When she's not writing or teaching, you can find Vanessa either on a dance floor, in a gym punching a bag or in the woods hugging a tree and talking to birds. 

For more on Vanessa, check out her video on why she created her Writing Our Lives classes, what's different about her teaching style, and what she has planned. 

To contact Vanessa: vamartir@gmail.com