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Cleyvis Natera

Cleyvis Natera is the author of the debut novel Neruda on the Park (Ballantine Books, 2022).

Temporary and Ongoing

July/Aug 2020

Curandera

By Cleyvis Natera

Vida learned to use the heat from her mother when she’d been a child no bigger than this one. She took a small pouch from her dress pocket and began […]

July/Aug 2022

Sugar

By Cleyvis Natera

Street signs were the first thing imported. Big as body bags flattened, green with capitalized white letters—in the English most of us didn’t understand. Minerva arrived days after the signs, […]