Cleyvis Natera
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Cleyvis Natera was born in the Dominican Republic in 1977. She immigrated to the US with her mother and siblings in 1988. She grew up in Harlem and holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Skidmore College and a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Fiction from New York University. Cleyvis is the Co-Founder of The Toni Morrison Festival and Love As A Kind of Cure.
Cleyvis has been chosen for several awards and fellowships including PEN America's Writing for Justice Fellowship, The Bread Loaf Carol Houck Smith Returning Contributor Award in Fiction, Kenyon Review's Peter Taylor Fellowship in Fiction and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship in Fiction both in VA and France. She was a finalist for a Fulbright Creative Writing Award to the Dominican Republic. Cleyvis is a proud alum of The Disquiet International Literary Program and Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation. Cleyvis is hard at work on her first novel, Neruda on the Park. She lives in Montclair, NJ with her husband and two young children. |