Amy Alvarez

Amy M. Alvarez teaches undergraduate writing. Her research interests include Affrilachian Poetics, Hip Hop and Gender, and Contemporary Black and Latinx Poetry in North America and the Caribbean. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Crazyhorse, The Missouri Review, Alaska Quarterly, Sugar House Review, Rattle, and elsewhere. She is both a CantoMundo and a VONA Voices Fellow. After earning an MAT as a New York City Teaching Fellow and teaching in public high schools in the Bronx and Boston, she earned an MFA from the Stonecoast Program at the University of Southern Maine. She is a native of Queens, NY.

Teaching Interests:

Creative Writing
Poetry
Writing Instruction