Kiera Alventosa writes environmental justice fiction for young adult audiences. Her genres span across magical realism and contemporary urban fantasy. She hopes to publish her manuscript in the coming year.

Kiera Alventosa is the Energy Democracy Organizer at an environmental justice nonprofit, GreenRoots, based in Chelsea and East Boston, Massachusetts. She organizes residents in Spanish and English to advocate for distributed energy resources to reduce energy burdens, promote equitable access to clean energy, and influence policy decision-making to prioritize environmental justice. In her previous role, she worked as Environmental Health Organizer for Clean Water Action, and where she advocated alongside environmental justice communities on the issue of lead in drinking water.

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In 2023, she received a distinction in her Masters of Science 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 Masters of Arts 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.