Kiera Alventosa

Kiera Alventosa is the Environmental Health Organizer for Clean Water Action, and where she works with environmental justice communities on the issue of lead in drinking water. In 2023, she received a distinction for her MSc from the University of Oxford in Nature, Society and Environmental Governance. Her dissertation focused on decolonial world-building in BIPOC climate fiction. She also received a distinction for her MA in Writing from the University of Warwick, where she specialized in environmental fiction, short stories, and poetry.

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. She was also awarded the Academy of American Poets University Prize for her eco-poem, which is now published on poets.org.

She writes to describe environmental justice in a way that is both accessible and nuanced, understanding fiction as a form of activism.