Nina Oteria is slowing down, listening for the still, small voice. She is a poet, artist, and educator, one of the founding poets of the Corcoran Poetry Wall in Durham, and a visual artist; recently, she was an artist-in-residence at Attic 506 in Chapel Hill. Nina is a dream traveler who uses creativity to heal herself and the community through teaching English at a high school, writing coaching, and holding creative space. She holds an MFA in Writing from Pratt Institute. She holds sand and saltwater. Nina is very probably from the bottom of the ocean, or the expanding edge of the universe, but was born in Raleigh, NC.