Ivy Alvarez

Ivy Alvarez is a New Zealand–based Filipina Australian poet, editor, and reviewer. Alvarez has had her work featured in various publications in Australia, Canada, England, the Philippines, New Zealand, Ireland, Russia, Scotland, Wales, the US, South Africa, and online.

Early years Alvarez was born in the Philippines and grew up in Tasmania, Australia. She moved to Aberdeen in 2002 and lived in Dublin between 2003 and 2004. She moved to Cardiff in 2004. was included in the Australian/Pacific Region Literacy Placement Test for Scholarships. was released in 2006 by US publisher Red Morning Press. Craig Santos Perez, writing for Boxcar Poetry Review, called it "an incredible first collection" whose "casual tone, visceral imagery, and surprising figurative language keeps the reader engaged throughout."

In late 2006, Alvarez received The Australia Council Literature Board grant for poetry. and a featured reader at Worcester College and Winchester University.

In May 2011, she spent two weeks at the Seoul Art Space (Yeonhui) and gave readings as a member of the Oz-Ko Tour of Korea. Her poem "Hold" was published and discussed in the Poetry Workshop section of The Guardian on 4 November 2011.

Alvarez has been a guest at numerous writing festivals, including the National Young Writers' Festival in Newcastle, New South Wales. catalogue: life as tableware (Wales: The Private Press, 2004) What's wrong (Wales: The Private Press, 2004) We Don’t Stop Here (The Private Press, 2008) The Chained Hay(na)ku Project (co-editor) (Meritage Press, 2010) The First Hay(na)ku Anthology (Meritage Press / xPress(ed), 2005) OBAN 06 (NZ Electronic Poetry Centre, 2006) NaPoWriMo (Big Game Books, 2006) From the Garden of the Gods (Sun Rising Press, 2006) The Musculature of Small Birds (Shadowbox Press, 2007) Brilliant Coroners (Phoenicia Publishing imprint, 2007) The Sex Mook: What is Our Sex? (Vignette Press, 2007) Letters to the World: Women Poets Anthology (Red Hen Press, 2008) The Best Australian Poems 2009 (Black Inc., 2009) Hair (Sydney: Trunk, 2009) Voice of Women in Wales (Wales Women's National Coalition, 2010) Fire On Her Tongue (Two Sylvias Press, 2011) In Their Cups (Melbourne Poets Union, 2011) A Face to Meet the Faces (University of Akron Press, 2012)