Ariana Alvarado is recent graduate of Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky. She is currently a graduate student at the University of Louisville pursuing her MA in English with a Diversity Fellowship. She was the 2022 First Place Winner of the Flo Gault Student Poetry Prize from Sarabande Books. She also served as the 2022-2023 BecVar Artist in Residence at Bellarmine University and self-published her resulting collection “Quiet Dark.”
