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Amy M. Alvarez is an Affrilachian poet. Her work focuses on race, ethnicity, gender, regionality, nationality, and systemic injustice. She has been awarded fellowships from CantoMundo, VONA, Macondo, VCCA, and the Furious Flower Poetry Center. Selected as one of 2022’s Best New Poets, her poetry has appeared in nationally and internationally recognized literary journals including Ploughshares, The Cincinnati Review, River Styx, Crazyhorse, Alaska Quarterly Review, PRISM international, and elsewhere. She is co-editor of Esssential Voices: A COVID-19 Anthology (West Virginia University Press, 2023). Amy was born in New York City to Jamaican and Puerto Rican parents. She has taught English and Humanities courses at public high schools in the Bronx, New York, and Boston, Massachusetts. She now lives in Morgantown, West Virginia, and teaches at West Virginia University.