Ivy Alvarez is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, whose verse novel Disturbance was adapted into a musical, premiering in Tokyo, Japan.

Born in the Philippines, Ivy Alvarez lived in Scotland, the Republic of Ireland, Wales, and New Zealand, before returning to Tasmania, Australia in 2024.

As an actor, she is represented by Fourth Wall Agency.  [Read more]

“Like watching a camera panning across highly concentrated physical and emotional landscapes.”

—Natalie Linh Bolderston

Available from Paloma Press.

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

—Sally Spedding

Available from Seren.

“Haunting and surreal … powerful and foreboding.”

—Jennifer MacBain-Stephens

Available from Paekakariki Press.

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

—WN Herbert

Available from the author.