Latinx Writer/Cultural Omnivore. Publisher @ Digging Press, LLC, EIC @ Digging Through The Fat, and curator of the Digging Through Reading Series
Public Readings and Talks
Get Fresh Books Friendsgiving Poetry Nights, November 2020. Hosted by: Roberto Carlos Garcia. Readers: Ysabel Y. Gonzalez, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Tamara Zbrizher, Gessy Alvarez, and Malik Abduh. –
Digging Through Reading Series (Host) January 14, 2020 – Readers: Paul Beckman, John Paul “JP” Infante, Christine Kendall, Hadley Moore, and Joanna C. Valente. Musical Guest: Tamar Eisenman. February 11, 2020 – Readers: Dorothy Barnhouse, C.S. Hanson (with Peter Oliver) , Rachel Horowitz, Stacey Hughes, and Susan Stires. Musical Guest: Adnan Sabir. March 10, 2020 – Readers: Roberto Carlos Garcia, Summer J. Hart, Christine Sloan Stoddard, and Mandy-Suzanne Wong. –
NYC FBomb Flash Fiction Series, The Red Room at KGB Bar, NYC. August 2, 2019. Hosted by: Paul Beckman. Readers: Michelle Elvy, Gessy Alvarez, Craig Fishbane, Ran Ringer, Anne Weisgerber, Luke Salisbury, and Ron Brawer. –
NYC FBomb Flash Fiction Series, The Red Room at KGB Bar, NYC. February 1, 2019. Hosted by: Paul Beckman. Readers: Austin Alexis, Gessy Alvarez, Randall Brown, Matt Broderick, Devin Kelly, Nancy Ludmerer, and Jan Stout. _
Same Page Reading Series, The Red Room at KGB Bar, NYC. November 14, 2018. Hosted by: Mickie Meinhardt and Sarah Madges. Readers: Jason Koo, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Gessy Alvarez, Megan Murphy, and Milly Tamarez. _
Renegade Reading Series, Cafe Con Libros, Brooklyn. August 17, 2018. Hosted by: Caitlin Elizabeth Harper. Readers: Genevieve Mills, Gessy Alvarez, Soraya Palmer, and Amy Gall. _
NYC FBomb Flash Fiction Series, The Red Room at KGB Bar, NYC. February 2, 2018. Hosted by: Paul Beckman. Readers: Gessy Alvarez, Madeline Artenberg, Nancy Ludmerer, Alison McBain, Courtney Sender, A. E. Weisgerber, and Francine Witte. _
NYC FBomb Flash Fiction Series, The Red Room at KGB Bar, NYC. June 2, 2017. Hosted by: Gessy Alvarez. Readers: Craig Fishbane, Roberto Carlos Garcia, Ysabel Gonzalez, Tamara Hart, Rachel Horowitz, Karen Levy, Charlie Vazquez, and Aida Zilelian. _
The New York Society Library, 2017 Literary Magazine Salon with Digging Through The Fat and Guernica. April 13, 2017. _ “Literature that enlivens our eclectic artistic community: An introduction to Digging Through The Fat” by founder and editor Gessy Alvarez and creative director Cynthia Alvarez, with special guest readers Tobias Carroll, Lauren Hilger, and Bud Smith. _
NYC FBomb Flash Fiction Series, The Red Room at KGB Bar, NYC. December 17, 2016. Readers included: Paul Beckman, April Bradley, John Gorman, Craig Fishbane, and Julie Turley. _
East and West Reading, Symposia Bookstore, Hoboken, NJ, November 12, 2016. Fellow Readers: Devin Kelly, Lauren Hilger, and Rich Ferguson. _
Manhattanville Reading Series, Manhattanville Coffee, Crown Heights, October 26, 2016. Fellow Readers: Dolan Morgan, Alexandra Tanner, and Alexander Drywall. _
Boundless Reading Series, The Local, Long Island City, NYC. October 13, 2016. Fellow Readers: Sana Hussain, Julia Phillips, and Stephanie Rogers. _
Digging Through The Fat Takes Bushwick, M.C., The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. October 6, 2016. Artists: Cynthia Alvarez, Summer J. Hart, Charlotte Sims. Poets: K.T. Billey, Roberto Carlos Garcia, Jenn McCreary, and Justin Petropoulos. _
NYC FBomb Flash Fiction Series, The Red Room at KGB Bar, NYC. September 9, 2016. Fellow Readers: Paul Beckman, Chuck Howe, Alice Kaitman, Loren Kleinman, Jane Liddle, Sara Lippman, Jolene McIlwain, Bud Smith, Nancy Stohlman, Jan Elman Stout, and Anne Elizabeth Weisgerber _
Uno Kudo / Mellow Pages Library, reading, Brooklyn, NY. January 17, 2015. Fellow Readers: Paula Bomer, Mark Brunetti, Bobby Fisher, Chuck Howe, Amy King, Tracey Lander-Garrett, Bill Lessard, Bud Smith, and Marvin Waldman. _
Mad Hat Press Presents: A Reading at Word Up Community Bookshop. September 27, 2014. Fellow Readers: Sara Epstein, Willis Gordon, Sara Lippman, Audrey Roth, Bud Smith. _
Blackmail Series 3, reading, Mellow Pages Library, Brooklyn, NY. March 20, 2014. Fellow Readers: Hallie Elizabeth, Carla Gannis, Michael Hessel-Mial, Justin Petropoulos, and Joseph Riippi. _