Cleyvis Natera

Cleyvis Natera was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New York City. She holds a BA from Skidmore College and an MFA from New York University. Natera is the author of the novel Neruda on the Park (Ballantine Books, 2022), and her fiction, essays, and criticism have appeared in Alien Nation: 36 True Tales of Immigration, TIME, Gagosian Quarterly, The Washington Post, The Kenyon Review, Aster(ix), and Kweli Journal, among other publications. She has received honors from PEN America, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation (VONA). Natera teaches creative writing to undergraduate students at Fordham University and to graduate students at the Writer’s Foundry MFA Program at St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn, New York. She lives with her husband and two young children in Montclair, New Jersey.