Beth Alvarado

Beth Alvarado is a prose writer, teacher, and desert dweller. Jillian in the Borderlands: A Cycle of Rather Dark Tales is her fourth book. "Alvarado's use of many voices," one reviewer writes, "challenges the tendency to make stories of people and places linear and from a single perspective." In Alvarado's nonfiction, she has written extensively about her experiences as a Euro-American woman marrying into her late husband's Mexican American family when she was 19 years old. She spent most of...See more

Beth Alvarado is a prose writer, teacher, and desert dweller. Jillian in the Borderlands: A Cycle of Rather Dark Tales is her fourth book. "Alvarado's use of many voices," one reviewer writes, "challenges the tendency to make stories of people and places linear and from a single perspective." In Alvarado's nonfiction, she has written extensively about her experiences as a Euro-American woman marrying into her late husband's Mexican American family when she was 19 years old. She spent most of her life in Tucson, Arizona, and now lives in the high desert of central Oregon. Her essay collection, Anxious Attachments , won a 2020 Oregon Book Award. See less