Vanessa Micale is a multidisciplinary artist who lives in Portland, Oregon. They are a mixed Uruguayan American who creates across monikers and mediums as a bilingual writer, singer-songwriter, and performer.

 

Their work, nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, appears in Guernica, Mānoa, The Hopper, Roxane Gay’s The Audacity, Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin and more. Vanessa writes "Happen To Notice," a biweekly micro-newsletter on somatics and creativity.

 

Vanessa is part of Literary Arts Writers in the Schools (WITS) and has received support from RACC (Regional Arts and Culture Council). They are a Latinx in Publishing mentee (2023) and fellow of Anaphora Arts (2021), VONA (2018), and the Sou'wester Artist Residency program (2024). 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 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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​As a queer neurodiverse being currently in the shape of a person, Vanessa experiments with lyric, hybrid genres and forms. Vanessa appreciates soft nightlife, forest baths, animals (especially dogs), and lush glimmers of joy. They are a somatic coach, facilitator, and pleasure activist who draws from various modalities of movement, sound and language.