Voices on Addiction: Searching for My Mother’s Ocean
We left when the boats were shutting down and the stores closed. In the darkness of downtown Miami, fear crept into the cracks of my boldness. Downtown was not a safe place at night.
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Nilsa Ada Rivera
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Nilsa Ada Rivera is a multimedia writer who tells stories about housing insecurity and other intersecting topics. Her work appears in the Hippocampus Magazine, Huffington Post, 50 GS Magazine, Six Hens Literary Journal, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, Selkie Literary Magazine, Writing Class Radio, and Turning Dark into Light. Her essay published in Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness anthology was nominated for the 2022 Pushcart Prize. She received her MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She may be found online on IG and FB @nilsawrites and YT @nilsaada.