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Beth Alvarado is the author of two books, Anthropologies: A Family Memoir (University of Iowa Press, 2011) and Not a Matter of Love (Many Voices Prize, New Rivers Press, 2006). Recent essays have been published inThird Coast, North American Review, Nimrod, and Sonora Review; recent stories have appeared in or are forthcoming fromWestern Humanities Review, The Collagist, The Southern Review, and Drunken Boat, the Librotraficante Issue. Beth is the fiction editor of Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts andhas been a Lecturer at the University of Arizona since 1990.
Photograph by Fernando Alvarado