Ivy Alvarez
Ivy Alvarez is the author of Mortal (Red Morning Press, 2006) and three chapbooks: what's wrong, catalogue: life as tableware and Food for Humans. She also edited A Slice of Cherry Pie (Wales: The Private Press; New York: Half Empty/Half Full, 2006), a chapbook anthology of poems inspired by David Lynch's Twin Peaks. Both the Australia Council for the Arts and Academi recently awarded her writing grants to write poems for her second manuscript. Her poetry appears in journals and anthologies worldwide and online, including Meanjin, Famous Reporter, Poetry Wales and In Posse. She has read her poetry at literary events and festivals in Australia, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.