Mary Margaret Alvarado

Mary Margaret Alvarado is the author of American Weather (NewLights Press), a book-length essay on gun violence and disarmament in collaboration with the artist Corie Cole; Chrome of Iris, winner of the 2023 Burnside Review chapbook contest; and Hey Folly (Dos Madres), a book of poems. A teacher, artist, and mother, Mia’s work has been published in The Rumpus, VQR, Outside, Cagibi, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, The Boston Review, The Point, The Kenyon Review, Image, and elsewhere, and thrice shortlisted in The Best American. Mia received her MFA from the University of Iowa where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow and a Provost’s Post-Graduate Writing Fellow. She’s been a writer-in-residence at the Seven Hills School (Ohio), Art Farm (Nebraska), and Power and Light Press (New Mexico) and presently lives in Colorado, where she runs a non-profit, Brave Irene’s.