a pearl string of lights,
the skyline in the distance——
a shimmering peace
Thursday, October 13, 2011
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About Me
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- Juan Alvarado Valdivia was born in Guadalajara, Mexico and raised in Fremont, CA. He is a 2010 graduate of Saint Mary's College of California's MFA in Creative Writing program. In 2011, he was awarded an artist residency fellowship through The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico. He is a proud two-time VONA (Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation) alum and attended the 2013 Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. His fiction and nonfiction have been published in The Acentos Review, Black Heart Magazine, and Label Me Latina/o. His memoir will be published in Fall 2015 by the University of New Mexico Press. He lives in Oakland with his wife.