Ivy Alvarez is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and New Zealand Poetry Society’s editor for a fine line magazine. Her verse novel Disturbance was adapted into a musical, premiering in Tokyo, Japan.

Born in the Philippines, Ivy Alvarez grew up in Tasmania, Australia. Having lived in Scotland and the Republic of Ireland, she lived almost ten years in Cardiff, Wales, before arriving in Auckland, New Zealand in 2014.

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“Like watching a camera panning across highly concentrated physical and emotional landscapes.” —Natalie Linh Bolderston

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“This masterpiece of brutality veined with tenderness will skewer you to its pages.” —Sally Spedding

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“Haunting and surreal … powerful and foreboding.” —Jennifer MacBain-Stephens

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“Here’s a striking new voice to accompany us from Hades to Tasmania, from myth to mother.” —WN Herbert

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