Bio

Amy M. Alvarez is the author of the poetry collection Makeshift Altar (2024) and the co-editor of Essential Voices: A COVID-19 Anthology (2023). Selected as one of 2022’s Best New Poets, her poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Poetry Foundation, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships from CantoMundo, VONA, Macondo, the Virginia Creative Arts Center, and the Furious Flower Poetry Center. In 2022, she was inducted as an Affrilachian Poet. Amy was born in New York City to Jamaican and Puerto Rican parents. She has taught at high schools in the Bronx, New York, and Boston, Massachusetts, and at West Virginia University. She currently teaches at Boston College.

Based in Morgantown, West Virginia, Amy M. Alvarez is a poet, educator, and scholar. Her work focuses on race, ethnicity, gender, regionality / nationality / borderlessness, and systemic injustice / social justice.

Bio

Based in Morgantown, West Virginia, Amy M. Alvarez is a poet, educator, and scholar. Her work focuses on race, ethnicity, gender, regionality / nationality / borderlessness, and systemic injustice / social justice.