Beth Alvarado is the author of Anxious Attachments, an essay collection, as well as Anthropologies: A Family Memoir and a short story collection Not a Matter of Love. Her collection Jillian in the Borderlands: A Cycle of Rather Dark Tales is coming out from Black Lawrence Press in 2020. Her essays have been published in literary journals like The Sun, Guernica, and River Teeth, and have twice been chosen as Notable in Best American Essays. Visit her at www.bethalvarado.com.