María Auxiliadora Álvarez (Caracas, Venezuela, 1956) is a professor emerita at Miami University, Ohio, since 2023. Growing up in different countries due to her father’s diplomatic career, she settled in the United States in 1996, where she received master’s and doctorate degrees in Spanish Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Her research areas include Mystical/ Contemporary Poetry; Pre-Columbian/Colonial Cultures; and Women, Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies. She has published several critical articles in literary journals, two essay books, a poetry translation book (English-Spanish), and fourteen poetry books.