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 when she was ten years old. 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 Virginia 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, Juniper Institute and Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Kenyon Review, Asterix and Kweli Journal, among other publications, and she has been featured in Doré, Refinery29 and The New York Times for her social justice work as Co-Founder of the Toni Morrison Festival and Love As A Kind of Cure. She’s represented by PJ Mark, a Partner at Janklow & Nesbit. 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. |