Beth Alvarado is the author of two books, Anthropologies: A Family Memoir (University of Iowa, 2011) and Not a Matter of Love and Other Stories (Many Voices Prize, New Rivers Press, 2006). Recent stories and essays have been published in The Sun, The Southern Review, The Collagist and the anthology The Female Complaint: Tales of Unruly Women. For most of her life, she has lived in Tucson, Arizona, where she taught at the University of Arizona. This year, she is a visiting writer for OSU-Cascades’s low residency MFA program.