Celia Lisset Alvarez

Celia Lisset Alvarez holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Miami and teaches writing at St. Thomas University. Her debut collection of poetry, Shapeshifting (Spire Press, 2006), was the recipient of the 2005 Spire Press Poetry Award. A second collection, The Stones (Finishing Line Press, 2006) followed that same year. Other work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals, including the Iodine Poetry Journal, Fifth Wednesday Journal, and Prairie Schooner, and in the recent anthologies Not a Muse (Haven Books, 2009), and Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems (Ragged Sky Press, 2009). Recently, her poem “Wonder Woman Goes through Menopause” was the winner of the 2008 HereThere Poetry Contest. Born in Madrid of Cuban parents en route to the United States, she grew up in Miami, where she lives with her husband, Cuban-American literary scholar and fellow poet Rafael Miguel Montes. On 24 May 2013, Celia interviewed me about Every Boy Should Have a Man (EBSHAM). The following posts, arranged in reverse order, are a transcript of that interview. Visit Celia at Writing With Celia: http://writingwithcelia.blogspot.com/