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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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My mother, the Luna Moth

On April 16th, my ma would have turned 71. She died on June 3rd, 2023, just weeks after after turning 69. Days later, a thick cloud of smoke descended on the entire northeast. It was hard to breathe. You could almost taste the embers.

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  • Vanessa Mártir

    Afro-Indigenous. Queer AF. Neurodivergent. I write. I edit. I teach.

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