About vanessa!
Vanessa Mártir has been widely published, including in The NY Times, The Washington Post, Longreads, The Guardian, The Rumpus, Bitch Magazine, and the NYTimes Bestseller Not That Bad, edited by Roxane Gay.
She is the recipient of the 2021 Letras Boricuas Fellowship, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Flaboyan Foundation's Arts Fund; a 2019 Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) Award in Creative Nonfiction; a 2019 AWP Kurt Brown Award in Creative Nonfiction; and a 2013 Jerome Foundation Award.
Vanessa is the creator of the Writing Our Lives Workshop and the Writing the Mother Wound movement. She has partnered with Tin House and The Rumpus to publish WOL alumni, and with Longreads and NYU's Latinx Project to publish Mother Wound essays. She has also served as guest editor of Aster(ix) and The James Franco Review.
Vanessa Mártir is a 1980s Bushwick-raised bocona learning the heartbeat of silence in the woods of upstate NY; an oil-and-water combination of imposter syndrome, ambition, procrastination, certainty, insecurity and drive. Vanessa's heart genre is creative nonfiction, & she's also a novelist & a wanna be poet & playwright.
When she's not writing or teaching, you can find Vanessa in the forest listening for Pachamama's lessons.
To contact Vanessa: vamartir@gmail.com
She is the recipient of the 2021 Letras Boricuas Fellowship, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Flaboyan Foundation's Arts Fund; a 2019 Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) Award in Creative Nonfiction; a 2019 AWP Kurt Brown Award in Creative Nonfiction; and a 2013 Jerome Foundation Award.
Vanessa is the creator of the Writing Our Lives Workshop and the Writing the Mother Wound movement. She has partnered with Tin House and The Rumpus to publish WOL alumni, and with Longreads and NYU's Latinx Project to publish Mother Wound essays. She has also served as guest editor of Aster(ix) and The James Franco Review.
Vanessa Mártir is a 1980s Bushwick-raised bocona learning the heartbeat of silence in the woods of upstate NY; an oil-and-water combination of imposter syndrome, ambition, procrastination, certainty, insecurity and drive. Vanessa's heart genre is creative nonfiction, & she's also a novelist & a wanna be poet & playwright.
When she's not writing or teaching, you can find Vanessa in the forest listening for Pachamama's lessons.
To contact Vanessa: vamartir@gmail.com