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Ivy Alvarez is aNew Zealand–basedFilipina Australian poet, editor, and reviewer.[1][2] Alvarez has had her work featured in various publications in Australia, Canada, England, the Philippines, New Zealand, Ireland, Russia, Scotland, Wales, the US, South Africa, and online.[1][3]
Alvarez was born in the Philippines and grew up inTasmania, Australia.[4] While studying English at theUniversity of Tasmania, she was published in various literary journals and anthologies, and subsequently became the reviews editor ofCordite Poetry Review, an Australian online poetry journal.[1]
In 2000, she won the Great AgeMelbourne Writers Festival Poetry Slam.[5] She moved toAberdeen in 2002 and lived inDublin between 2003 and 2004.[1] In 2004, she was awarded a bursary from the ScottishArvon Foundation[1] and became the Special Poetry Guest to Dublin'sTrinity College/Florida International University poetry summer program.[4] She moved toCardiff in 2004.[1] During the same year, her poem "earth", which first appeared in the anthologyMoorilla Mosaic: Contemporary Tasmanian Writing,[6] was included in the Australian/Pacific Region Literacy Placement Test for Scholarships.[4] Alvarez was awarded fellowships fromMacDowell Colony (New Hampshire, USA) andHawthornden Castle (Scotland) in 2005.[1][4]
In 2006, she editedA Slice of Cherry Pie, achapbookanthology inspired byDavid Lynch's TV show,Twin Peaks.[4] That same year, she received a grant from Wales Arts International which enabled her to travel to Sydney and participate in The Red Room Company's "The Poetry Picture Show".[4]
Her first poetry collection,Mortal,[7] was released in 2006 by US publisher Red Morning Press.[8] Craig Santos Perez, writing forBoxcar Poetry Review, called it "an incredible first collection" whose "casual tone, visceral imagery, and surprising figurative language keeps the reader engaged throughout."[9]
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, followed by a writing residency at the Booranga Writers Centre atCharles Sturt University inWagga Wagga,New South Wales.[4]
Alvarez was a Visiting Lecturer at theUniversity of Chester in 2010[10] and a featured reader atWorcester College andWinchester University.[11]
In May 2011, she spent two weeks at theSeoul Art Space (Yeonhui) and gave readings as a member of the Oz-Ko Tour ofKorea.[10][12] Her poem "Hold" was published and discussed in the Poetry Workshop section ofThe Guardian on 4 November 2011.[13]
Alvarez has been a guest at numerous writing festivals, including theNational Young Writers' Festival inNewcastle, New South Wales.[4] As a performer of her work, she has been Artiste-in-Residence for Australia'sSBS radio and TV network.[4] Her poetry has been featured on the audio compilationsFlightPaths,Going Down Swinging andYou Have Been Chosen.[4] In addition to poetry, she also writes plays, articles, and reviews.[4] Alvarez was awarded funding for her second poetry manuscript from both theAustralia Council and theWelsh Academy.[4]
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