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  <name><![CDATA[Nanette Rayman-Rivera]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Scattered Light Press has just published my poetry book:  
shana linda -pretty pretty. 


http://scatteredlightpublications.books.officelive.com/


http://www.scribd.com/doc/17696937/Shana-Linda-pretty-pretty

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UPDATED ANNOUNCEMENT ON CYBER STALKER JACOB WALSH:

If anyone finds insipid, mean, nasty, insane comments on their blogs with my name attached, please be advised that it is NOT me writing these things:  It is again, JACOB WALSH OF INDIANA, cult member of HOOM, apologist or employee of Sallie Mae, who has a vendetta against me for pointing out the draconian laws pertaining to student loans.  He is all over the internet doing this, even on blogs I have never been on.  He has hacked into my email.  He has threatened to kill me and to mutilate my genitals.

SO, AGAIN, if anyone finds awful posts by me, Nanette Rayman Rivera, anywhere, IT IS NOT ME, it is JACOB WALSH.  He is being investigated.


Nanette Rayman Rivera, two-time Pushcart Nominee for non-fiction and poetry, is the author of the poetry collection, Project: Butterflies by Foothills Publishing and the chapbook, alegrias, by Lopside Press. 

She is the first winner of the Glass Woman Prize for non-fiction and has poetry on Best of the Net 2007.  Her story, Puhi Paka, was best of issue in Greensilk Journal.  

Publications include The Worcester Review, Oranges and Sardines, Carousel, Carve, The Berkeley Fiction Review, Dragonfire, Arsenic Lobster, ditch, MiPOesias, Prick of the Spindle, The Wilderness Review, carte blanche, Pebble Lake Review, Mannequin Envy, Dirty Napkin, Pedestal, Lily, Wheelhouse, The Smoking Poet, Cliterature, Stirring, Snow Monkey, Wicked Alice, Tipton Poetry Journal, Dragonfire, Arsenic Lobster, Three Candles, Velvet Avalanche Anthology, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Red River Review, Flashquake, A Little Poetry, DMQ Review, Her Circle, Magnolia,O Sweet Flowery Roses, grasslimb, Barnwood, featured poet in Chantarelle’s Notebook and Up the Staircase. Upcoming: Contemporary American Voices, Counterexample and The Clearfield Review.

She is listed on imbd, Turner Classic Movies and Yahoo Movies for her roles in Stephan’s Silver Bell and Guns on the Clackamas. She played a waitress four times on All My Children and has performed in off-off Broadway plays and at Caffe Lena Theatre in Saratoga Springs. She is shopping her memoir around to agents, a true story of what really goes on in the New York City’s homeless, welfare, food stamp and public housing system.  She graduated from The New School University.

She was a semifinalist in Miss Massachusetts.
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