Paula NevespaulA neves is a native of the Ironbound section of Newark, NJ, whose writing has appeared in Newest Americans, The Acentos Review, Cleaver Magazine, The Abuela Stories Project, Queen Mob's Teahouse, Writers of the Portuguese Diaspora, Quiddity and esewhere. She is a teaching artist-in-residence for the GlassBook Project and her artwork is featured in several of its collections. A CantoMundo fellow, she has also received scholarships/residencies from the Sundress Academy for the Arts, the Luso-American Development Foundation, and the Disquiet Literary Program. She is a member of the arts-activist groups Brick City Collective and Kale Soup for the Soul, and a graduate of the MFA program in creative writing at Rutgers-Newark. Follow her at paulaneves.net or @itinerantmuse. Read More Read Less