List Of Writers

ALVAREZ, IVY

Email: ivyalvarez@gmail.com
Websites: http://redmorningpress.com and http://ivyalvarez.com

Ivy Alvarez is the author of Mortal (Red Morning Press, 2006). Her poetry appears in anthologies, literary journals and new media worldwide and online.

The recipient of numerous awards, prizes and residencies, Fundación Valparaíso invited her to undertake a writing residency in Spain for April 2008, while Academi and the Australia Council for the Arts both awarded her grants to continue work on her second manuscript. In 2006, Wales Arts International awarded her a grant to travel to Sydney, Australia and participate in The Red Room Company’s ‘The Poetry Picture Show’. In 2005, she received prestigious fellowships from MacDowell Colony (USA) and Hawthornden Castle (UK). In 2004, she accepted an Arvon Foundation bursary and the honour of Special Poetry Guest to Dublin’s Trinity College/Florida International University poetry summer program. That year, her poem ‘earth’ was included in the Australian/Pacific Region Literacy Placement Test for Scholarships, initially selected from Moorilla Mosaic: Contemporary Tasmanian Writing.

She edited A Slice of Cherry Pie (The Private Press / Half Empty/Half Full, 2006), a poetry chapbook anthology inspired by David Lynch’s cult TV show, Twin Peaks. Her third chapbook, what’s wrong (The Private Press, 2004), continues to receive positive reviews. A confident performer of her work, she has been Artiste–in–Residence for SBS, Australia’s acclaimed TV/radio network, and a guest of many writing festivals, including the National Young Writers Festival in Newcastle, Sydney. Her poetry has also been incorporated in dance and theatre performances, featured on audio compilations ’FlightPaths’, ’Going Down Swinging’ and ’You Have Been Chosen’, and broadcast on radio and online podcasts. Ivy was recently writer-in-residence at the Booranga Writers Centre in Wagga Wahha, New South Wales.

In addition to her poetry, she writes plays, reviews and articles, and has served on the editorial board of several journals, including Cordite Poetry Review. Born in the Philippines, Ivy Alvarez grew up in Tasmania, Australia. She has lived in Cardiff for the past two years, having spent six months in Scotland and a year in the Republic of Ireland.

Selected Publications:
Food for Humans (Slow Joe Crow Press, 2002)
catalogue: life as tableware (The Private Press, 2004)
what’s wrong (The Private Press, 2004)
Mortal (Red Morning Press, 2006)

Contributed to:
Moorilla Mosaic (contributor) (Bumble-bee Press, 2001)
Father Poems (contributor) (Anvil Publishing, 2004)
The First Hay(na)ku Anthology (contributor) (Meritage Press / xPress(ed), 2005)
OBAN 06 (contributor) (NZ Electronic Poetry Centre, 2006)
NaPoWriMo (contributor) (Big Game Books, 2006)
From the Garden of the Gods (contributor) (Sun Rising Press, 2006)
A Slice of Cherry Pie (editor) (The Private Press / Half Empty/Half Full, 2006)
The Musculature of Small Birds (contributor) (Shadowbox Press, 2007)
Brilliant Coroners (contributor) (Phoenicia Publishing imprint, 2007)
What is Our Sex? (contributor) (Vignette Press, 2007)
We Don’t Stop Here (editor) (The Private Press, 2008)
Letters to the World: Women Poets Anthology (contributor) (Red Hen Press, 2008)
The 2008 Anthology of Younger Poets (contributor) (Outside Voices, 2008)



Mortal (Red Morning Press, 2006)

"…Sharpness of perception, whether of taste, eye or ear, is what defines this tightly written collection. The sharpnesses of the heart as mothers and daughters strain to find continuity, the sharpnesses of a sometimes painful, sometimes delightful present, and the deep poignancies of memory, are incised across these poems. Throughout, Ivy Alvarez’s control of tone and subtle range of voices crosses continents and generations. Here’s a striking new voice to accompany us from Hades to Tasmania, from myth to mother…"

W.N. Herbert, author of Bad Shaman Blues

Eligible Writers on Tour topics offered:

1. Read and discuss own poetry from book and chapbooks
2. Workshop: "An Introduction to Poetry"
3.Workshop: "Hay(na)ku and Experimental Poetic Forms 

Age Range: 16 to 106.

Special Requirements:  adequate lighting for reading. Table for books.