Author: Vanessa Martir
Vanessa Mártir is a big-hearted, 1980s Bushwick-raised bocona learning the heartbeat of silence in the countryside of upstate NY; an oil-and-water combination of imposter syndrome, ambition, procrastination, certainty, insecurity and drive. Vanessa writes personal essays, memoir & novels, is a wanna be poet & playwright, and the creator of the Writing Our Lives Workshop and the Writing the Mother Wound Movement.
Vanessa’s work has appeared in The NY Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Longreads, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, the VONA/Voices Anthology, Dismantle, and the NYTimes Bestselling anthology Not That Bad, edited by Roxane Gay, among others.
Vanessa 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.
When she's not writing or teaching, you can find Vanessa in the woods hiking and talking to trees and birds. Find out more about her relentless belief in our stories at vanessamartir.com.
Writing Practice: What is it, & why do writers need it? with Vanessa Mártir
Writing Our Lives is returning September 1st!
The FREE Writing Experimental Essays Series June Class: What is the hermit crab essay?
The FREE Writing Experimental Essays Series May Class: What is the braided essay?
*Postponed until April 28th — The FREE Writing Experimental Essays Series April Class: What is the collage essay?
The FREE Writing Experimental Essays Series March Class: What is Flash Creative Nonfiction?
FREE Writing the Mother Wound Preview Class
Writing the Mother Wound Spring 2021 Edition
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