Vanessa Micale is a multidisciplinary artist who lives in Portland, Oregon. They are a mixed Uruguayan American Latina who creates across monikers and mediums as a poet, writer, singer-songwriter, musician and performer. Their work has been Pushcart nominated and appears in The Hopper, Roxane Gay’s The Audacity and more. 

 

Vanessa is a Latinx in Publishing mentee (2023) and fellow of Anaphora Arts (2021) and VONA (2018). In 2024, they graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from Randolph College as a Blackburn Fellow. They hold a BA in Creative Writing with honors from San Francisco State University. 

 

Vanessa is the founder of Poderosa Voz LLC. She offers coaching as a certified Resilience Toolkit facilitator and a range of topics for in person and virtual events as a workshop facilitator, public speaker, creative writer and performer. She is a 2018 ValorUS LEAP fellow for women of color in the movement to end gender-based violence.

 

As a singer-songwriter, Vanessa currently performs under the solo project name Elle Bosque. She was formerly based out of Los Angeles where she performed experimental folk music under the project name ilo mar.

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Over the years, Vanessa self-recorded 8 albums and produced a handful of zines, none of which are available online.

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Vanessa writes "Happen To Notice," a biweekly micro-newsletter on somatics and creativity.