María Isabel Álvarez is a first-generation Guatemalan-American writer and educator. She received her BA in English Literature and her MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University.
Her writing has received fellowships and grants from The Elizabeth George Foundation, the Speculative Literature Foundation, the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Sundress Academy for the Arts, the Colgate Writers Conference, Yaddo, and Hedgebrook.
Her short fiction is published in Kenyon Review, Black Warrior Review, Sonora Review, and Gulf Coast, among other venues, and has been anthologized in The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States and Forward: 21st Century Flash Fiction. Poems of hers are published or forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, DIALOGIST, Breakwater Review, and elsewhere. Alongside the poet, Dante Di Stefano, she co-edited the poetry anthology, Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trump’s America (NYQ Books).
She lives and teaches in upstate New York and is currently at work on a novel and a collection of short stories.