BY DESIRÉE ALVAREZ
Desirée Alvarez is the author of Devil’s Paintbrush (Bauhan Publishing), which won the 2015 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize. She is a painter and a poet, and her work has been published in Poetry, Boston Review, The Iowa Review, and Prairie Schooner. She teaches at New York City College of Technology, CUNY, The Juilliard School, and Artists Space.