Cleyvis Natera

Cleyvis performed at a SpeakTogether student matinee at Fordham High School for the Arts in the Bronx on March 7, 2023, speaking on the theme, “A Brave and Startling Truth,” and later at a SpeakTogether student matinee at Bronx High School for Law and Community Service in the Bronx on November 8, 2023, speaking on the theme “Owning Your Story.”

Cleyvis Natera is the author of the debut novel Neruda on the Park. She studied literature and creative writing at Skidmore College and holds a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from New York University. Her fiction, essays and criticisms have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, URSA Story, TIME, Alien Nation: 36 True Tales of Immigration, Gagosian Quarterly, The Brooklyn Rail, The Rumpus, The Washington Post, Memorious, The Kenyon Review, Aster(ix) and Kweli Journal, among other publications. Her writing has been supported through awards, fellowships and artist residencies by PEN America, Rowland Writers Retreat, Hermitage Artist Retreat, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Disquiet International Literary Program, Voices of our Nation Arts Foundation and Juniper Summer Writing Institute. She teaches Creative Writing in New York City at the undergraduate and graduate level. She lives with her husband and two young children in Montclair, NJ.

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