“Practice gratitude and uplift others…earning your community nourishes your writing,” No’u Revilla, poet.

I am a writer, a recovering academic (Comp. Lit and Italian Language and Literature). I wrote a dissertation on representations of the femme fatale in literature and film and taught courses in Italian language, literature and film and humanities/writing for pre-med students at Vanderbilt University. I am a nature lover, mom and small business owner living in East Nashville, Tennessee. I grew up in “fabulous Las Vegas” in the 70s and 80s and that is a major part of my writing inspiration. I hail from a big Italian family from Salerno, Italy via Colorado and Pennsylvania on one side, and a smaller, close-knit Mexican-American family on the other side. My dad is a first-generation Mexican-American. His parents were the first Mexicans to be granted a liquor license in the state of Colorado. The restaurant industry and food run deep on both sides of my family.

I am a nature lover, a naturally curious person and I’ve never met a stranger. I am very invested in my community and am a political junkie, though I am trying to break that habit and involve myself locally and on a small scale in the city I love/hate: Nashville. Virgo, Scorpio rising and an ENFJ, I gravitate toward the spiritual and the sublime and spend hours looking at birds in my backyard.

I am happy to land here and happy you found me. Let’s not be strangers.