About vanessa!

Vanessa Mártir is a NYC based writer, editor and educator. 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 NY Times, The Washington Post, Longreads, 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 recipient of 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 for T&W Artists. She is the creator of the Writing Our Lives Workshop and the Writing the Mother Wound movement. She teaches her classes in person in NYC and online. Vanessa has partnered with Tin House and The Rumpus to publish WOL alumni, and is currently partnering with Longreads to publish Mother Wound essays.  Vanessa has also 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