I’m interested in writing that attempts to reconcile the visible present with the invisible past, writing that confronts the writer and implicates the reader. Writing that acknowledges that it takes imagination to understand reality and that reality itself is a feat of imagination and conviction.
Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas is the author of Drown Sever Sing from Anomalous press and Don’t Come Back, from Mad Creek Books, as well as the co-editor of the forthcoming anthology The Great American Essay. Her fiction, nonfiction, poetry and translation work has been featured in various journals including The Bellingham Review, The Chicago Review, Fourth Genre, Brevity, Poets & Writers and the Sunday Rumpus, among others. She’s been the recipient of the Best of the Net award and the Iron Horse Review’s Discovered Voices award, she has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and is a Rona Jaffe fellow.
Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas has advised graduate and undergraduate projects, several of which are now books and published works, ranging from lyrical explorations of war and revolution, narrative manuscript confronting disability and sexual assault, to experimental essays about food, culture, country and sexuality.