Nanette Rayman Rivera

Nanette Rayman Rivera, two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, is the author of a poetry collection, Project: Butterflies, published by Foothills Publishing (2007) and a chapbook, alegrias, by Lopside Press (2007). She is the first winner of the Glass Woman Prize for non-fiction. Her poem, Shoes 1943 will be published in the Best of the Net Anthology – out this month. Publications include The Berkeley Fiction Review, Dragonfire, Worcester Review, Pedestal, The Pebble Lake Review, MiPOesias, Carousel, Barnwood, Lily, ken *again, Farrago’s Wainscot, Arsenic Lobster, The Externalist, Wheelhouse, AntiMuse, A Little Poetry, Stirring including Stirring’s Steamiest Six, Wicked Alice, Her Circle, Sein Und Werden, DMQ Review, Carve Magazine, Three Candles, Snow Monkey, Small Spiral Notebook, The Greensilk Journal – Editor’s Pick, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Red River Review, Aoife’s Kiss, Words and Pictures, 5 Trope, Jack, Chantarelle’s Notebook. Upcoming: Tipton, Grasslimb. She is shopping her memoir around, a story about the “real” deal in regards to New York City’s homeless shelters, welfare and food stamp programs and public housing. The story no one will admit to. She was Guest Poetry Editor for Moondance in December 2007. She studied at The New School and Circle in the Square , Gene Frankel Studios and the New England Shakespeare Festival. She played a waitress four times on All My Children, has performed in New York City’s black box theatres and is listed on imbd, Turner Classic Movies and Yahoo Movies for her roles in Stephan’s Silver Bell and Guns on the Clackamas.

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Blind - Issue Two: Winter 2008