Amy M. Alvarez

Amy M. Alvarez is a Black Latinx poet. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Anomaly, New Ohio Review, Crazyhorse, The Missouri Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She has won fellowships from CantoMundo, VONA, Furious Flower Poetry Center, Macondo, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. In 2022, she was inducted as an Affrilachian Poet. She is co-editor of the COVID-centered anthology Essential: Vulnerable Voices (2023). She teaches at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV.