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Writing Our Lives

Vanessa Mártir

My work is grounded in 1980s Bushwick, Brooklyn, a neglected Black and Brown neighborhood that I left when I was 13. I return to my home hood in my stories to make visible the invisible, & chronicle my life in the tradition of Esmeralda Santiago.

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Latest Issues

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The animals that have saved me

I grew up with animals. There was Whitey, an appropriately named white puppy of unknown breed who died shortly after we got him. I remember him laid out motionless on a blanket in our kitchen. I poked him, eyes brimming with tears, “Wake up...

a month ago
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Confession: I am a longtime, chronic over sharer

I have a confession: I am a longtime, chronic over sharer.

3 months ago
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A prompt & a pearl: #19

I spent last week with writers in the ancient ponderosa pine forests of the San Jacinto Mountains of Southern California.It was beautiful in so many ways—because of the mountains, the trees, the specific smells of the forest; because this i...

5 months ago
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A prompt & a pearl: #18

I want to tell you about my brother, Juan Carlos, aka my Superman.

5 months ago
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  • Vanessa Mártir

    Vanessa Mártir is a queer, Afro-Indigenous writer, editor, and educator. She founded the Writing Our Lives Workshop and the Writing the Mother Wound movement. Read more about Vanessa’s relentless belief in storytelling at vanessamartir.com.

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