María Álvarez
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Rob and Melani Walton Center for Planetary Health 777 E. University Dr. Tempe, AZ 85287-2404
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Mail code: 2404Campus: Tempe
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María Isabel Álvarez is a first-generation Guatemalan American writer and educator. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and a BA in English Literature from Arizona State University. Her areas of expertise include grant writing, speech writing, email marketing, copywriting, editing, proofreading, document design, content creation, program management, and event coordination. She also writes and publishes literary fiction.
For her writing, she has received fellowships, grants, and scholarships from The Elizabeth George Foundation, Speculative Literature Foundation, Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Sundress Academy for the Arts, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Colgate Writers Conference, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Yaddo, and Hedgebrook.
Her short stories, poetry, and book reviews are published in literary journals such as Guernica, Michigan Quarterly Review, Kenyon Review, Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, Prairie Schooner, and Gulf Coast. She received the 2022 Phyllis Grant Zellmer Prize for Fiction and the 2016 Blue Earth Review Flash Fiction prize, and has been anthologized in The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States (Tia Chucha Press, 2017), Forward: 21st Century Flash Fiction (Aformentioned Productions, 2019), and No Tender Fences: Immigrant and First-Generation American Poetry (2019). Alongside the poet, Dante Di Stefano, she co-edited the poetry anthology, Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trump's America (NYQ Books, 2018).
From 2021 to 2023, she taught multi-genre creative writing workshops at SUNY Binghamton, where she was a lecturer and Associate Director of Creative Writing. Currently, she supports the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory as Senior Communications Specialist.
M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Arizona State University, 2017
B.A. in English Literature, Arizona State University, 2011
Courses
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
Awards
- Grand Prize Winner, Phyllis Grant Zellmer Prize in Fiction, West Trade Review
- Grand Prize Winner, Flash Fiction Contest, Blue Earth Review
- Graduate Excellence Award, Graduate College, Arizona State University
Fellowships
- Bread Loaf Scholar in Fiction, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
- Inaugural Matt Leone Fellow, Colgate Writers’ Conference
- Janet Sloane Fellow, the Corporation of Yaddo
- Artist in Residence, Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts
- Artist in Residence, Hedgebrook Writers Residency
Grants
- Artist Grant, The Elizabeth George Foundation
- Gulliver Travel Research Grant, Speculative Literature Foundation
- Artist Research and Development Grant, Arizona Commission on the Arts
- Individual Development Award, New York Joint Labor Commission
Residencies
- Yaddo
- Hedgebrook
- Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts
- Sundress Academy for the Arts
Scholarships
- Writer-of-Color Scholarship, Tennessee Arts Commission
- National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC)
- Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP)