Mary Margaret Alvarado

Mary Margaret Alvarado is the author of American Weather (NewLights Press), Chrome of Iris (Burnside Review), and Hey Folly (Dos Madres). Most recently, her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have been published in The Atavist, Post Road, The Baffler, Image, and The Georgia Review and have thrice been shortlisted in The Best American. For a culture of leisure and literacy, she runs Brave Irene’s, and teaches in prison as part of that work. Mia is the nonfiction editor for Image. She mothers, sings shape note, farms her yard, and draws. She is a fourth-generation Coloradan, recently home from living in Guanajuato, Guanajuato with her family.