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Celia Lisset Alvarez

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Celia Lisset Alvarez’s parents left Cuba after the Castro revolution during the freedom flights of the 1970s for Madrid, Spain, where she was born. They then joined the rest of their family in Miami, where they have been living ever since. Alvarez holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. She has three collections of poetry: Shapeshifting (winner of the 2005 Spire Press Poetry Award), The Stones (Finishing Line Press 20060, and Multiverses (Finishing Line Press 2021). A fourth book, Bodies & Words, is forthcoming from Assure Press. Her poetry, short stories, essays, and reviews have been published widely, most recently in the journals Fresh Words and Catamaran and the anthologies How to Write a ...more

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	How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens by Joanne Merriam (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dean Francis Alfar (Goodreads Author), Celia Lisset Alvarez (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poets and Artists (July 2010): The South Florida Issue by Emma Trelles (Goodreads Author), Grace Cavalieri (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Diego Quiros (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shapeshifting 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Multiverses 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stones 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932

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The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood

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“This is the best of all possible worlds.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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“Intense love always leads to mourning.”
― Louise Gluck, Triumph of Achilles

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“Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.”
― Wallace Stevens

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“Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.”
― Billy Collins

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“The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.”
― Stephen King, Night Shift

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