Alvarez, Julia
Birth Date: 1950
Birthplace: New York, New York
Education: She received a B.A. from Middlebury College in 1971, and
a M.F.A. from Syracuse University in 1975.
Professional Career: Poet-in-the-Schools in KY, DE, and NC, 1975-78;
Phillips Andover Academy, Andover, MA, instructor in English, 1979-81;
University of Vermont, Burlington, visiting assistant professor of
creative writing, 1981-83; George Washington University, Washington,
DC, Jenny McKean Moore Visiting Writer, 1984-85; University of Illinois
at Urbana, assistant professor of English, 1986-88; Middlebury College,
Middlebury, VT, associate professor of English, 1988-2000; writer.
She received the Benjamin T. Marshall Poetry Prize, Connecticut College,
1968 and 1969; prize from Academy of American Poetry, 1974; creative
writing fellowship, Syracuse University, 1974-75; Kenan grant, Phillips
Andover Academy, 1980; poetry award, La Reina Press, 1982; exhibition
grant, Vermont Arts Council, 1984-85; Robert Frost Poetry fellowship,
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 1986; Third Woman Press Award, first
prize in narrative, 1986; award for younger writers, General Electric
Foundation, 1986; National Endowment for the Arts grant, 1987-88;
syndicated fiction prize, PEN, for "Snow"; grant from Ingram
Merrill Foundation, 1990; Josephine Miles Award, PEN Oakland, 1991,
and notable book designation, American Library Association, 1992,
both for How the García Girls Lost Their Accents.
Works
- How Tía Lola Came to Stay. New York: Knopf, 2001.
- In the Name of Salomé. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books
of Chapel Hill, 2000.
- Something to Declare. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books
of Chapel Hill, 1998.
- ¡Yo! Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
1996.
- The Other Side/El Otro Lado. New York: Dutton, 1995.
- In the Time of the Butterflies. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin
Books of Chapel Hill, 1994.
- How the García Girls Lost Their Accents. Chapel
Hill, ND: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991.
- My English. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel
Hill, 1990.
- Homecoming. New York: Grove Press, 1984.
- The Housekeeping Book. Burlington, 1984.
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