Lisa Alvarado is a poet, novelist, and performance artist, author of Raw Silk Suture and Sister Chicas. She is an eldest daughter of an eldest daughter of an eldest daughter, a word-slinging hired gun who carries bendiciones, bruchas and be-bop in her heart.
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