Alvira Hazzard

Alvira Hazzard (December 11, 1898 – January 10, 1953) was an American writer, poet, educator, and playwright, based in Boston but associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She graduated from Worcester Normal School. She wrote plays, adapted plays, acted in plays, and wrote about Boston theatre.

Hazzard attended the Opportunity Awards Dinner in New York in 1927. She was publicity chair for the Boston branch of the NAACP, and president of the Health Guild of the Boston Tuberculosis Association. She was also a competitive amateur golfer. She died in 1953, at the age of 54, from leukemia.

Publications Plays Polly Wakes Up (produced by Maud Cuney Hare in 1928) Little Heads (1929) Poems "The Penitent" (1928) "Predestination" (1929) "To My Grandmother" (1929) "Jason Gets a Jolt" (1927, short story) "Rejection Slip" (1928, short story) "Oatmeal Cookies" (1928, short story) "Blind Alley" (1929, short story) "Boston Little Theater Movement in 4th Year" (1930, article)