Ivy Alvarez is the author of Mortal (2006) and Disturbance, her second poetry collection published in 2013. Both Literature Wales and the Australia Council for the Arts have awarded her grants towards the writing of Disturbance. She is a MacDowell and Hawthornden Fellow whose poems appear in anthologies and journals in many countries and online, including Best Australian Poems (2009), A Face to Meet the Faces (USA, 2012) and the Guardian (UK, 2012). Several poems have been translated into Russian, Spanish, Japanese and Korean. In May 2011, she received an invitation to visit Korea as a featured writer for the Australia-Korea Poetry Exchange Project, thanks to Cordite Poetry Review, Asia Link and the Korea Literature Translation Institute. Born in the Philippines and raised in Australia, she has also lived in Scotland and Ireland, before becoming a British citizen in 2010, after living in Cardiff, Wales since 2004.
