Beth Alvarado is the author of Anxious Attachments, long-listed for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay ; Anthropologies, and Not a Matter of Love.  Her next book, Jillian in the Borderlands, is forthcoming in 2020. Having migrated north from Tucson, Arizona, she now lives in Bend,  where she is core faculty at OSU-Cascades Low Residency MFA Program.