Writing Our Lives
by Vanessa Mártirin 📚 Literature
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Writing Our Lives
About the Substack
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.
About 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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