Nancy Alvarado began her career as an author at age 4, when she scratched the word "house" into the wall of her freshly painted house. Her more recent work has been met with less dismay. Nancy holds both a BA and an MFA in writing. She worked for several years as a columnist for the Chula Vista Star-News, winning awards for Excellence in Journalism from the San Diego Press Club, the California Reading Association, and the Greater San Diego Reading Association. Nancy's fiction has been previously published in Relief Journal, San Diego State University MFA Anthology, Santa Clara Review, A Year in Ink, the Mason Jar Press Jarnal, the San Diego Decameron Project Anthology, and LatinoLA “Expresate!” She was one of the Honorable Mention winners in the Writing Away Refuge First Chapter Contest.