#8 Cleyvis Natera
Every month, a featured author on Raising Mothers shares a writing prompt with our private community. This prompt was provided by Cleyvis Natera from our profile with her in our Mama's Writing column.
Cleyvis Natera (she/her) is an award-winning novelist, essayist, and critic. Her debut novel, Neruda on the Park, was awarded a Silver Medal by the International Latino Book Awards for Best First Book of Fiction in 2023. Natera is the recipient of the 2024 Voices Rising Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center. This prestigious award was established in honor of groundbreaking women writers of color such as Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Zora Neale Hurston. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, TIME, Gagosian Quarterly, The Kenyon Review, Aster(ix) and Kweli Journal. Natera has been supported through awards, fellowships and artist residencies by PEN America, Hermitage Artist Retreat, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, among others. She teaches fiction at Barnard College of Columbia University and Antioch University’s Low-Residency M.F.A. program. Natera’s second novel, The Grand Paloma Resort, is forthcoming in 2025.
Read Cleyvis Natera's profile here.
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