The Audacity.

The Audacity.

The Rats Survive

Emerging Writer Series

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Vanessa Micale
May 04, 2022
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Every two weeks or so I publish an essay from an emerging writer. This week’s piece is “The Rats Survive,” by Vanessa Micale. Vanessa is multidisciplinary writer and performer. She is a fellow of Anaphora Arts and VONA. Vanessa is an incoming 2022 Randolph College MFA Blackburn Fellow.  Find her online at https://www.vanessamicale.com.

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Vanessa Micale is a bilingual writer and performer, singer-songwriter, somatic practitioner and facilitator. Their work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and appears in Guernica, The Hopper, Roxane Gay's The Audacity, and more.
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