Episode Notes

Bio:

Lisa Alvarez’s poetry and prose have appeared widely including About Place Journal, Air/Light, Citric Acid, Huizache, Los Angeles Times, Santa Monica Review, and in anthologies such as Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America (Norton) and most recently, Women in a Golden State: California Poets at 60 and Beyond (Gunpowder Press). For 33 years she has been a professor of English at Irvine Valley College, where she co-directs the PUENTE program. In the summers, she co-directs the writers workshops at the Community of Writers in California's High Sierra. Her debut collection, _Some Final Beauty and other Stories, _was published in August 2025 by the University of Nevada Press, as part of their New Oeste imprint which promotes Latinx writers of the American West.

Link to website: https://www.lisaalvarez.com/