In the News

We Did Good Enough: Vesper North ponders Lisa Alvarez’s new story collection.

by Vesper North

in the Los Angeles Review of Books 1/3/2026

Short, beautiful Southern California reads for our doomscrolling times

by Gustavo Arellano

in the Los Angeles Times 11/30/2025

Canto CDXX: Lisa Alvarez, Profe to the OC Revolution Or: Random Cool People I Know

by Gustavo Arellano
10/4/25

"You See Their Feet": Grounding and Grace in Lisa Alvarez's Some Final Beauty (Citric Acid)

by Rebecca Schultz

in Citric Acid 10/1/25

Short Story Today with Jon Saviano (podcast)

Episode 134 - Lisa Alvarez: interview and staged reading of "Manuel"

9/17/25

Review: Some Final Beauty and Other Stories

by Michael Sedano

in La Bloga 9/9/25

Irvine Valley College’s Lisa Alvarez publishes debut short story collection ahead of retiring

by Liz Ohanesian

in OC Register/SCNG. 9/3/25

Irvine Valley College writing professor pens a new chapter, just before retirement

by Sarah Mosqueda

in The Daily Pilot/LA Times. 9/15/25

On the Page and In Life

by Lisa Alvarez

Omnium Gatherum Quarterly Fall 25

Conversations with Lisa Alvarez

in Voyage L.A.

9/8/25

Short Stories All the Time by Ann Graham

Ocean Park #12 by Lisa Alvarez

2/1/2014