Li Yun Alvarado

Li Yun Alvarado is a Puerto Rican poet, writer, and educator. She has been published in several journals including The Acentos Review, Kweli Journal, PALABRA, A Magazine of Chicano and Latino Literary Art, and Modern Haiku. In 2009, she received an Academy of American Poetry Prize and one of her poems was selected for inclusion in where the wind turns: The Red Moon Anthology 2009. Her poetry manuscript was selected as a finalist for The Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize in 2010.

Li Yun is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in English at Fordham University where she helped coordinate Fordham's Poets Out Loud reading series. She has participated in the VONA Writers Workshop in San Francisco and has facilitated an Acentos Writers Workshop in the Bronx. She has also had the pleasure of teaching poetry to middle school and high school students in Boston, New York, and the Dominican Republic. She lives in New York City and takes frequent trips to Salinas, Puerto Rico to visit la familia.