Cleyvis Natera

Cleyvis Natera is the author of the debut novel Neruda on the Park. She was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New York City. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Skidmore College and a Master of Fine Arts from New York University. She’s received honors from PEN America, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation (VONA). 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. Cleyvis teaches creative writing to undergraduate students at Fordham University and graduate students at the Writer’s Foundry MFA Program at St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn. She lives with her husband and two young children in Montclair, New Jersey.

Companies

• Adjunct Professor Fordham University (2021)
• University Lecturer St. Joseph's College (2020)
• Claim Director CNA Insurance (2001 — 2020)
• AVP, Claim Operations CNA Insurance (2016 — 2017)
• AVP, Business Support CNA Insurance (2014 — 2016)
• Director Of Project Management CNA Insurance (2011 — 2014)
• Director Of Operations CNA Insurance (2008 — 2011)