Woman I Kept to Myself

Julia Alvarez was selected by the New York Public Library as one of fifty poets included in its year-long exhibit The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters, from John Donne to Julia Alvarez. Her stories, essays, and poems have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Ploughshares, the American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, and Best American Poetry. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Jessica Nobel-Maxwell Poetry Prize for 1995, awarded by the American Poetry Review, and the American Academy of Poetry Prize at Syracuse University. Alvarez has also been the Robert Frost Fellow in Poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She has published four novels, a book of essays, and three collections of poetry. She and her husband divide their time between Vermont, where she is a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College, and the Dominican Republic, where they are part of a small organic coffee farm and literacy center for local farmersAlvarez, Julia is the author of 'Woman I Kept to Myself', published 2004 under ISBN 9781565124066 and ISBN 1565124065.