Ivy Alvarez
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Ivy Alvarez is an award-winning New Zealand-based Filipino Australian poet, editor, and reviewer. A prolific writer, Alvarez has had her work featured in various publications in Australia, Canada, England, the Philippines, New Zealand, Ireland, Russia, Scotland, Wales, the USA, South Africa, and online.
Alvarez was born in the Philippines and grew up in Tasmania, Australia. While reading 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. In 2000, she won the Great Age Melbourne Writers Festival Poetry Slam.
She moved to Aberdeen in 2002 and lived in Dublin between 2003 and 2004. In 2004, she was awarded a bursary from the Scottish Arvon Foundation and became the Special Poetry Guest to Dublin’s Trinity College/Florida International University poetry summer program. She moved to Cardiff in 2004. During the same year, her poem "earth", which first appeared in the anthology Moorilla Mosaic: Contemporary Tasmanian Writing, was included in the Australian/Pacific Region Literacy Placement Test for Scholarships. Alvarez was awarded fellowships from MacDowell Colony (New Hampshire, USA) and Hawthornden Castle (Scotland) in 2005.
In 2006, she edited A Slice of Cherry Pie, a chapbook anthology inspired by David Lynch's TV show, Twin Peaks. 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".
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