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Ivy Alvarez is an award-winning Filipino-Australian poet, editor, and reviewer currently residing in Wales.[1] A prolific writer, Alvarez has had her work featured in various publications in Australia, Canada, England, the Philippines, Ireland, Russia, Scotland, Wales, the USA, and online.[1]


Biography[edit]

Alvarez was born in the Philippines and grew up in Tasmania, Australia.[2] While reading English at the University of Tasmania, she was published in various literary journals and anthologies, and subsequently became the reviews editor of Cordite Poetry Review, an Australian online poetry journal.[1] In 2000, she won the Great Age Melbourne Writers Festival Poetry Slam.[3]

She moved to Aberdeen in 2002 and lived in Dublin between 2003 and 2004.[1] In 2004, she was awarded a bursary from the Scottish Arvon Foundation[1] and became the Special Poetry Guest to Dublin’s Trinity College/Florida International University poetry summer program.[2] During the same year, her poem "earth", which first appeared in the anthology Moorilla Mosaic: Contemporary Tasmanian Writing,[4] was included in the Australian/Pacific Region Literacy Placement Test for Scholarships.[2] Alvarez was awarded fellowships from MacDowell Colony (New Hampshire, USA) and Hawthornden Castle (Scotland) in 2005.[1][2]

In 2006, she edited A Slice of Cherry Pie,[5] a chapbook anthology inspired by David Lynch's TV show, Twin Peaks.[2] That same year, she received a grant from Wales Arts International which enabled her to travel to Sydney and participate in the The Red Room Company’s "The Poetry Picture Show".[2]

Her first poetry collection, Mortal, was released in 2006 by US publisher Red Morning Press.[5] Craig Santos Perez, writing for Boxcar Poetry Review, called it "an incredible first collection" whose "casual tone, visceral imagery, and surprising figurative language keeps the reader engaged throughout."[6]

In late 2006, Alvarez received The Australia Council Literature Board grant for poetry.[1] She was invited on a writing residency by Fundación Valparaíso in Spain for April 2008.[2]

As a performer of her work, she has been Artiste-in-Residence for Australia's SBS radio and TV network.[2] Her poetry has been featured on the audio compilations FlightPaths, Going Down Swinging and You Have Been Chosen.[2]

Having been a guest at numerous writing festivals, including the National Young Writers' Festival in Newcastle, New South Wales, Alvarez was recently writer-in-residence at the Booranga Writers Centre at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales.[2] In addition to poetry, she also writes plays, articles, and reviews.[2] Alvarez was awarded funding for her second poetry manuscript from both the Australia Council and the Welsh Academy.[2]

Published works[edit]

Poetry collections[edit]

  • Food for Humans (Melbourne: Slow Joe Crow Press, 2002)[7]
  • catalogue: life as tableware (Wales: The Private Press, 2004)[8]
  • What’s wrong (Wales: The Private Press, 2004)[8]
  • Mortal (Washington, DC: Red Morning Press, 2006)[5]

Edited volumes[edit]

  • A Slice of Cherry Pie (The Private Press / Half Empty/Half Full, 2006)[5]
  • We Don’t Stop Here (The Private Press, 2008)

Anthology contributions[edit]

  • Moorilla Mosaic (Bumble-bee Press, 2001)[4]
  • Father Poems (Anvil Publishing, 2004)[9]
  • The First Hay(na)ku Anthology (Meritage Press / xPress(ed), 2005)[10]
  • OBAN 06 (NZ Electronic Poetry Centre, 2006)
  • NaPoWriMo (Big Game Books, 2006)
  • From the Garden of the Gods (Sun Rising Press, 2006)[11]
  • The Musculature of Small Birds (Shadowbox Press, 2007)
  • Brilliant Coroners (Phoenicia Publishing imprint, 2007)
  • What is Our Sex? (Vignette Press, 2007)
  • Letters to the World: Women Poets Anthology (Red Hen Press, 2008)
  • The 2008 Anthology of Younger Poets (Outside Voices, 2008)
  • Robert Adamson (5 November 2009). The Best Australian Poems 2009. Black Inc. ISBN 9781863954525. Retrieved 4 March 2011.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Priscelina Patajo-Legasto (2010). Philippine Studies: Have We Gone Beyond St. Louis?. The University of the Philippines Press. pp. 631–632. ISBN 9789715425919. Retrieved 3 March 2011.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Alvarez, Ivy". The Writers of Wales Database. Academi. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
  3. ^ University of Melbourne (2002). Meanjin. University of Melbourne. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
  4. ^ a b Robyn Mathison; Lyn Reeves (1 April 2001). Moorilla mosaic: contemporary Tasmanian writing. Bumble-bee Books. ISBN 9780958613323. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
  5. ^ a b c d Ivy Alvarez (1 November 2006). Mortal. Red Morning Press. ISBN 9780976443926. Retrieved 3 March 2011. Cite error: The named reference "Alvarez2006" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  6. ^ Santos Perez, Craig (January 2008). "Review – Ivy Alvarez's Mortal". Boxcar Poetry Review (12). ISSN 1931-1761. Retrieved March 4, 2011. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  7. ^ Ivy Alvarez (2002). Food for humans. Slow Joe Crow Press. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
  8. ^ a b Ivy Alvarez (2004). Catalogue: life as tableware. Private Press. Retrieved 4 March 2011. Cite error: The named reference "Alvarez2004" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  9. ^ Gémino H. Abad (2004). Father poems. Published and exclusively distributed by Anvil Pub. ISBN 9789712714825. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
  10. ^ Jean Vengua; Mark Young (January 2005). The first Hay(na)ku anthology. Meritage Press. ISBN 9789519198729. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
  11. ^ Sun Rising Poetry Press (30 December 2005). From the Garden of the Gods. Sun Rising Pr. ISBN 9780975595596. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
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