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LISA ALVARADO

Lisa Alvarado is an editor, copywriter, poet, novelist, and journalist. She has provided marketing and public relations copy for the commercial and non-profit arenas for over 15 years. 


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Lisa founded La Onda Negra Press, authored Reclamo and The Housekeeper’s Diary; originally a book of poetry and now a one-woman performance. Her first novel, Sister Chicas, Penguin/NAL, was released in April 2006. The novel is a coming of age story concerning the lives of three young Latinas living in Chicago. It won 2nd place, Best First Novel in English. (Latino Literacy Now/2007)


Her book of poetry, Raw Silk Suture, released by Floricanto Press in 2008, was positively reviewed by Rigoberto Gonzalez. She has curated multimedia exhibits, mounted her own multimedia piece, Reclamo, in the Pilsen art corridor in Chicago; and is currently a contributor to the nationally touring exhibit, Re-imagining the Distaff Toolkit, curated by Ricki Solinger/SUNY.


In Fall, 2009, she was awarded Hispanic Author of the Year by the State of Illinois.

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Alias Olympia - A Woman's Search for Manet's Notorious Model & Her Own Desire by Eunice Lipton

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Reel Knockouts by Martha McCauley and Neel King

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My Dark Places - Boston.com

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