Cleyvis Natera is a Dominican-born American novelist and educator. She teaches at Barnard College and Montclair State University; and is a lecturer at The New School. She lives in Montclair, New Jersey.
Cleyvis Natera was born in the Dominican Republic, and she immigrated to the United States as a child at the age of 10. Natera graduated from Skidmore College, and New York University (MFA). Her work has appeared in Aster(ix) Journal and The Rumpus.