Nicole Montana
Nicole Montana is a recipient of a Ricardo Salinas Scholarship for her participation in Aspen Words Summer Words 2022 Program. She received a Minnesota State Arts Board 2020 Artist Initiative Grant for her work-in-progress “Stay Where I Can See You.” Her creative nonfiction appears in The Spectacle. Montana serves on the Board of Directors for Green Card Voices, a multimedia storytelling organization dedicated to immigrant voices. She currently teaches writing at the University of Minnesota. She received her MFA in nonfiction writing from Sarah Lawrence College.
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When the Past Caught Up to Her
Nana’s hiding from me in her closet. My great-grandmother’s dementia has let revolutionaries from her past loose in her mind, and she thinks I’m one of them. She sees them in my silhouette when I find her holding her closet door closed. She weeps and pleads with me: please, please leave me be. I try […]