Nina Alvarez

The main purpose of NinaAlvarez.net is to celebrate poetry, but it is also a site where you can read more about me, Nina Alvarez, if you are interested. Below is my bio and if you click to Page White Creative, you can see my copywriting and design portfolio. Other pages are about my fiction/poetry publications, academic research, teaching, and publishing.

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Bio
Nina Alvarez works as a web content developer and Web 2.0 marketer for Artspan.com. She still does freelance copywriting in her spare time. Nina’s short stories have been published in 21 Stars Review, Twisted Tongue, Dark Reveries, and Swill. Her poetry has been published in Grasslimb Literary Journal and Contemporary Rhyme. She runs the small publishing company Inconnue Press (formerly Inconundrum) and its new imprint for Buddhist literature Phantom City Press. Her master’s thesis engages the third space of culture in South Africa and South African literature.

Nina was born in Rochester, New York and started writing at age eight, publishing her first poem in Teen Magazine at 15. She received her BA and MA in English from the University at Albany, where she was awarded the Sheilds McIlwaine poetry award and where, as a graduate student, she studied with critically acclaimed novelist Douglas Glover. She wrote her thesis on postcolonial literary and cultural theory in South Africa after studying at the University of Cape Town and from 2002-2005 taught college-level composition and literature in Upstate New York. Nina has also worked as a freelance reporter for Ontario county’s Daily Messenger.

Nina received a juror’s award for a work of art submitted to an art show at Philadelphia’s Plastic Club. More of her photography and art can be seen at NinaAlvarez.com

For seven years she has been a member of the Buddhist organization, the Soka Gakkai Internationa.l