Ciara Alfaro

Ciara Alfaro is a Chicana writer, romantic, and descendant of magicians from Lubbock, Texas. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Passages North, Mid-American Review, Water~Stone Review, Swamp Pink, Best American Essays, and more. She has received fellowships from the Anderson Center, Yaddo, and Hedgebrook. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Minnesota and a BA in English from Colgate University. Ciara is a first generation college graduate and is passionate about working with queer and POC students, nontraditional learners, and writers from underrepresented backgrounds. Above all, she believes in conjuring tenderness and magic on the page.