Steven Alvarez

Steven Alvarez is an Associate Professor of English at St. John's University in New York, specializing in literacy studies and bilingual education with a focus on Mexican immigrant communities. He is the author of The Codex Mojaodicus (winner of the 2016 Fence Modern Poets Prize), the novels in verse The Pocho Codex (2011) and The Xicano Genome (2013), and several chapbooks. His scholarly work examines how literacy and bilingual mentorship affect school involvement among Latin American immigrant families.