Lisa Alvarez Editor

Lisa Alvarez is a professor of English at Irvine Valley College. Her poetry and prose has appeared in numerous literary journals. Alvarez coedited Writer’s Workshop in a Book: The Community of Writers on the Art of Fiction with Alan Cheuse and Orange County: A Literary Field Guide with Andrew Tonkovich. She codirects the annual Community of Writers summer conference in Olympic Valley, California, and lives in Modjeska Canyon. Robert Hass, U.S. Poet Laureate from 1995 to 1997, has published many books of poetry, including Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005, which won the 2007 National Book Award and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize.