Kiera Alventosa

Kiera Alventosa grew up in Long Island, New York. She graduated from Amherst College as an English and environmental studies double major, Summa Cum Laude with distinction, in May 2021. During this time, an excerpt of her manuscript, Where the Body Begins, won the Peter Burnett Howe Prize for excellence in prose fiction.

In 2020, Kiera won an Academy of American Poets University Prize for her poem, arbol, which is now published on poets.org. In 2022, she attended the University of Warwick for a Master of Arts in writing where she received a distinction for her work in environmental fiction. In 2023, she attended the University of Oxford and received a Master of Science in Nature, Society, and Environmental Governance where she wrote her dissertation on decolonial world-building practices in climate fiction.

She writes to address environmental injustice in a way that is both accessible and researched, engaging with activism through fiction.