Julia Alvarez is one of America’s most acclaimed and best-loved fiction writers and poets. Her novels about the Dominican and Dominican-American experiences have not only inspired new generations of Latinx authors, they have also helped to enlarge the map of world literature. Her magical new novel, The Cemetery of Untold Stories (April 2024), explores what happens to stories that are left unfinished.

Her 1991 novel, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, was named one of "21 new classics for the 21st century" by Library Journal. Her 1994 novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, was selected for "The Big Read" by the National Endowment for the Arts.

In 2013, President Obama awarded her the National Medal of Arts and, in 2021, Mattel unveiled a Barbie doll in her honor.

Julia Alvarez
4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18
Conversation and reading
NOTE CHANGE IN VENUE: The event will now take place in the UAlbany Campus Center West Auditorium
1400 Washington Avenue, Albany NY 12222 Read more at https://www.nyswritersinstitute.org/juliaalvarez