Cleyvis Natera

Cleyvis Natera is the author of the forthcoming debut novel Neruda on the Park which will be published May 2022 by Penguin Random House. She’s a Dominican immigrant who grew up in New York City. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from New York University. Her essays, short stories and criticism have most recently appeared in Alien Nation: 36 True Tales of Immigration, as well as in Time Magazine, Gagosian Quarterly, The Washington Post, The Kenyon Review, Asterix and Kweli Journal, among other publications. Cleyvis teaches Creative Writing in NYC and lives with her husband and two young children in Montclair, NJ. Follow her on Instagram @Cleyvis Natera