Ivy Alvarez

{{Short description|Filipina-Australian poet, editor, and reviewer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}} {{Infobox writer  | name = Ivy Alvarez | image = Ivy Alvarez.jpg | imagesize = 225px | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = | nationality = | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | influences = | influenced = | signature = | website = {{URL|http://www.ivyalvarez.com}} }} '''Ivy Alvarez''' is a New Zealand–based Filipina Australian poet, editor, and reviewer.<ref name="Patajo-Legasto2010">{{cite book|author=Priscelina Patajo-Legasto|title=Philippine Studies: Have We Gone Beyond St. Louis?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uF6WDAQHu08C&pg=PA631|year=2010|publisher=The University of the Philippines Press|isbn=978-971-542-591-9|pages=631–632}}</ref><ref name=ak>{{cite web|title=Ivy Alvarez|url=http://writersfestival.co.nz/writer/ivy-alvarez|website=Auckland Writers Festival|accessdate=27 April 2015|archive-date=24 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160124011915/http://writersfestival.co.nz/writer/ivy-alvarez|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Patajo-Legasto2010" /><ref name=oban>{{cite web|title=Oban06|url=http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/features/oban06/alvarez.asp|website=new zealand electronic poetry centre|publisher=University of Auckland|accessdate=27 April 2015}}</ref>

==Early years== Alvarez was born in the Philippines and grew up in Tasmania, Australia.<ref name=Academi /> While studying 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.<ref name="Patajo-Legasto2010" />

==Literary career== In 2000, she won the Great Age Melbourne Writers Festival Poetry Slam.<ref name="Melbourne2002">{{cite book|author=University of Melbourne|title=Meanjin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=otJZAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=University of Melbourne}}</ref> She moved to Aberdeen in 2002 and lived in Dublin between 2003 and 2004.<ref name="Patajo-Legasto2010" /> In 2004, she was awarded a bursary from the Scottish Arvon Foundation<ref name="Patajo-Legasto2010" /> and became the Special Poetry Guest to Dublin's Trinity College/Florida International University poetry summer program.<ref name=Academi>{{cite web | title=Alvarez, Ivy | url=http://www.academi.org/writers-of-wales/i/130155/ | work=The Writers of Wales Database | publisher=Academi | accessdate=7 January 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126120823/http://www.academi.org/writers-of-wales/i/130155/ | archive-date=26 November 2010 | url-status=dead }}</ref> She moved to Cardiff in 2004.<ref name="Patajo-Legasto2010" /> During the same year, her poem "earth", which first appeared in the anthology ''Moorilla Mosaic: Contemporary Tasmanian Writing'',<ref name="MathisonReeves2001">{{cite book|author1=Robyn Mathison|author2=Lyn Reeves|title=Moorilla mosaic: contemporary Tasmanian writing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uU4-PQAACAAJ|accessdate=4 March 2011|date=1 April 2001|publisher=Bumble-bee Books|isbn=978-0-9586133-2-3}}</ref> was included in the Australian/Pacific Region Literacy Placement Test for Scholarships.<ref name=Academi /> Alvarez was awarded fellowships from MacDowell Colony (New Hampshire, USA) and Hawthornden Castle (Scotland) in 2005.<ref name="Patajo-Legasto2010" /><ref name=Academi />

In 2006, she edited ''A Slice of Cherry Pie'', a chapbook anthology inspired by David Lynch's TV show, Twin Peaks.<ref name=Academi /> 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".<ref name=Academi />

Her first poetry collection, ''Mortal'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Mortal|url=http://www.ivyalvarez.com/words/books/mortal.html|publisher=ivyalvarez.com|accessdate=8 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713070811/http://www.ivyalvarez.com/words/books/mortal.html|archive-date=13 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> was released in 2006 by US publisher Red Morning Press.<ref name="Alvarez2006x">{{cite book|author=Ivy Alvarez|title=Mortal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=agv0PQAACAAJ|accessdate=3 March 2011|date=1 November 2006|publisher=Red Morning Press|isbn=978-0-9764439-2-6}}</ref> 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."<ref name=box>{{Cite journal | last = Santos Perez | first = Craig | title = Review – Ivy Alvarez's Mortal | journal = Boxcar Poetry Review | issue = 12 | date = January 2008 | url = http://www.boxcarpoetry.com/012/review_ivy_alvarez_perez.html | issn = 1931-1761 | accessdate = 4 March 2011}}</ref>

In late 2006, Alvarez received The Australia Council Literature Board grant for poetry.<ref name="Patajo-Legasto2010" /> 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 at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales.<ref name=Academi />

Alvarez was a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Chester in 2010<ref name=Cordite1>Staff [http://cordite.org.au/ozko/ozko-tour/ "Oz-Ko Tour(s) – OZ-KO TOUR OF KOREA (MAY 2011)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204075703/http://cordite.org.au/ozko/ozko-tour/ |date=4 February 2012 }} ''Cordite Poetry Review''.</ref> and a featured reader at Worcester College and Winchester University.<ref name=Varuna1>Admin (21 November 2011). [http://varunathewritershouse.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/writer-a-day-ivy-alvarez-reading-hold/ "Writer-a-Day: Ivy Alvarez reading “Hold”"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240818121311/https://varunathewritershouse.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/writer-a-day-ivy-alvarez-reading-hold/ |date=18 August 2024 }} ''Varuna, The Writers House Blog''.</ref>

In May 2011, she spent two weeks at the Seoul Art Space (Yeonhui) and gave readings as a member of the Oz-Ko Tour of Korea.<ref name=Cordite1 /><ref name=UTAS1>Peter Rathjen (May 2011). [http://www.utasalumni.org.au/Page.aspx?pid=451 "Alumni eNews – Poet on tour"] ''University of Tasmania''.</ref> Her poem "Hold" was published and discussed in the Poetry Workshop section of The Guardian on 4 November 2011.<ref name=Guardian1>Rachael Boast (4 November 2011). [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/04/poetry-workshop-skin-rachael-boast "Poetry workshop: Skin – Hold, by Ivy Alvarez"] ''The Guardian''.</ref>

Alvarez has been a guest at numerous writing festivals, including the National Young Writers' Festival in Newcastle, New South Wales.<ref name=Academi /> As a performer of her work, she has been Artiste-in-Residence for Australia's SBS radio and TV network.<ref name=Academi /> Her poetry has been featured on the audio compilations ''FlightPaths'', ''Going Down Swinging'' and ''You Have Been Chosen''.<ref name=Academi /> In addition to poetry, she also writes plays, articles, and reviews.<ref name=Academi /> Alvarez was awarded funding for her second poetry manuscript from both the Australia Council and the Welsh Academy.<ref name=Academi />

==Publications==

'''Novel in verse''' *''Disturbance'' (Seren Books, 2013)

'''Poetry collections''' *''Food for Humans'' (Melbourne: Slow Joe Crow Press, 2002)<ref name="Alvarez2002">{{cite book|author=Ivy Alvarez|title=Food for humans|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EG43NAAACAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Slow Joe Crow Press}}</ref> *''catalogue: life as tableware'' (Wales: The Private Press, 2004)<ref name="Alvarez2004">{{cite book|author=Ivy Alvarez|title=Catalogue: life as tableware|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QD2BNAAACAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Private Press}}</ref> *''What's wrong'' (Wales: The Private Press, 2004)<ref name="Alvarez2004"/> *''Mortal'' (Washington, DC: Red Morning Press, 2006)<ref name="Alvarez2006" /> *''One Dozen Poison Hay(na)ku'' (2013) *''The Everyday English Dictionary'' (Paekakariki Press, 2016)

===Edited volumes=== *''A Slice of Cherry Pie'' (The Private Press / Half Empty/Half Full, 2006)<ref name="Alvarez2006">{{cite book|author=Ivy Alvarez|title=A slice of cherry pie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t7lpOgAACAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Half Empty/Half Full}}</ref> *''We Don’t Stop Here'' (The Private Press, 2008) *''The Chained Hay(na)ku Project'' (co-editor) (Meritage Press, 2010)<ref name=Academi />

===Anthology contributions=== *''Moorilla Mosaic'' (Bumble-bee Press, 2001)<ref name="MathisonReeves2001" /> *''Father Poems'' (Anvil Publishing, 2004)<ref name="Abad2004">{{cite book|author=Gémino H. Abad|title=Father poems|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lW14GwAACAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Published and exclusively distributed by Anvil Pub.|isbn=978-971-27-1482-5}}</ref> *''The First Hay(na)ku Anthology'' (Meritage Press / xPress(ed), 2005)<ref name="VenguaYoung2005">{{cite book|author1=Jean Vengua|author2=Mark Young|title=The first Hay(na)ku anthology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sI5lAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=4 March 2011|date=January 2005|publisher=Meritage Press|isbn=978-951-9198-72-9}}</ref> *''OBAN 06'' (NZ Electronic Poetry Centre, 2006) *''NaPoWriMo'' (Big Game Books, 2006) *''From the Garden of the Gods'' (Sun Rising Press, 2006)<ref name="Press2005">{{cite book|author=Sun Rising Poetry Press|title=From the Garden of the Gods|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X8rkPQAACAAJ|accessdate=4 March 2011|date=30 December 2005|publisher=Sun Rising Pr|isbn=978-0-9755955-9-6}}</ref> *''The Musculature of Small Birds'' (Shadowbox Press, 2007) *''Brilliant Coroners'' (Phoenicia Publishing imprint, 2007) *''The Sex Mook: What is Our Sex?'' (Vignette Press, 2007) *''Letters to the World: Women Poets Anthology'' (Red Hen Press, 2008) *''The Best Australian Poems 2009'' (Black Inc., 2009)<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Adamson|title=The Best Australian Poems 2009|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aKILglieJ0cC&pg=PR5|accessdate=4 March 2011|date=5 November 2009|publisher=Black Inc.|isbn=978-1-86395-452-5}}</ref> *''Hair'' (Sydney: Trunk, 2009)<ref name=Academi /> * ''Red Leaves / 紅葉'' #001 (A Cowboy Named Molasses Publishing, 2010)<ref>{{cite web | last = Nunn | first = Graham | date = 12 February 2009 | title = Red Leaves: an interview with Kirk Marshall | url = http://anotherlostshark.com/2009/02/12/red-leaves-an-interview-with-kirk-marshall/ | work = Another Lost Shark | accessdate = 5 March 2011 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110707145015/http://anotherlostshark.com/2009/02/12/red-leaves-an-interview-with-kirk-marshall/ | archivedate = 7 July 2011}}</ref> *''Voice of Women in Wales'' (Wales Women's National Coalition, 2010)<ref name=Academi /> *''Fire On Her Tongue'' (Two Sylvias Press, 2011)<ref name=Academi /> *''In Their Cups'' (Melbourne Poets Union, 2011)<ref name=Academi /> *''A Face to Meet the Faces'' (University of Akron Press, 2012)<ref name=Academi />

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links==  * {{Official website|https://www.ivyalvarez.com/}} * [http://mascarareview.com/ivy-alvarez/ Ivy Alvarez] (two prose poems), ''Mascara Literary Review'', 10 October 2011

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