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About Vanessa

Vanessa writes essays, memoir and novels, is a wanna be poet & playwright, and the creator of the Writing Our Lives Workshop; the Writing the Mother Wound Movement. Vanessa has been widely published including in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Longreads, Agni, The Rumpus, Aster(ix) Journal, and the anthologies Not That Bad, edited by Roxane Gay, and So We Can Know edited by Aracelis Girmay. She is all about helping writers get published, and has partnered with Tin House and The Rumpus to publish WOL alumni, and with Longreads and NYU's Latinx Project to publish Mother Wound essays. She has also served as guest editor of Aster(ix) and The James Franco Review. Find out more about her relentless belief in our stories at vanessamartir.com.