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Amy M. Alvarez

Amy M. Alvarez is the author of the American Book Award and CariCon Poetry Prize winning poetry collection Makeshift Altar (UPK, 2024) and the co-editor of Essential Voices: A COVID-19 Anthology (WVU Press, 2023). Born to Jamaican and Puerto Rican parents in New York, New York, her work focuses on race, ethnicity, gender, place, and social justice. Selected as one of 2022’s Best New Poets, her poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, Poetry Foundation, and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships from CantoMundo, Voices of Our Nations (VONA), Macondo, the Virginia Creative Arts Center, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and the Furious Flower Poetry Center. In 2022, she was inducted as an Affrilachian Poet. She has taught at high schools in the Bronx, New York, and Roxbury, Massachusetts, and at West Virginia University. She currently teaches writing and literature at Boston College.