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