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"There’s something visceral and immediate about working with asylum seekers—it’s me, an application, and the person in front of me telling me the story of why they fled their home country." — Alejandra Oliva commonwealmagazine.org/migrations-doo…

“It’s not the full rest of deep winter—there’s plenty to do in a garden between planting and harvesting time—but that work is the daily maintenance work of staying alive, keeping things tidy, warding off bad habits and the like.” – Alejandra Oliva christiancentury.org/voices/midsumm…

I wrote about gardening and uh, apparently mid-summer seasonal depression

We’re so excited that Alejandra Oliva, Sean Enfield, and Rosa Hernandez are the Creative Nonfiction judges for the 2025 #FirecrackerAwards! Learn more and submit by November 15: clmp.org/programs-oppor…

Our secretary, Alejandra Oliva, is hosting this fundraiser on her Bookshop.org page at the link below! If you order these books through our link, MIBF will receive a percentage of the profits! Sale through November 1st! bookshop.org/lists/mibf-boo…

Taller de traducción creativa x Alejandra Oliva, autora de "Rivermouth" "En este taller bilingüe exploraremos la traducción como una manera de crear y recrear personalmente aquellos textos que nos fascinan". October 30 5:30/7:30pm Para registrarse eventbrite.com/e/lit-luz-la-t…

“The Bible tells us that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. I think, in turn, that the works of our hands—the things that clothe us and feed us and give us shelter—are at the very least made wonderful through this contact.” – Alejandra Oliva christiancentury.org/voices/vegetab…

No one knows what legendary Mexican president Benito Juárez did in exile in New Orleans. Yuri Herrera's new novel fills in the gap—"with bear fights and brothels and absinthe and arson." Alejandra Oliva reviews it for Americas Quarterly: americasquarterly.org/article/benito…

NEW: In his memoirs, the iconic Mexican President Benito Juárez sums up his exile in New Orleans in two terse sentences. Into that lacuna steps Yuri Herrera, with his new novel, writes Alejandra Oliva. americasquarterly.org/article/benito…

John McGreevy Phil Klay Samuel Moyn 🔭 .Alejandra Oliva searching for Simone Weil's mysterious English-language translator: commonwealmagazine.org/now-you-see-her

Writer and translator friends in Chicago! On October 30, don’t miss three Spanish-language and bilingual workshops from Clyo Mendoza, Javier Peñalosa M., and Alejandra Oliva, presented by MAKE + Lit & Luz and Instituto Cervantes Chicago: litluz.org/writing-worksh…

Coming back to the burning embers of this website to just say how absolutely proud I am of this essay and how honored I am at the company it's being published with

quedan muy pocos cupos, Chicago y luego del taller habrá chelas y comida parte del MAKE + Lit & Luz

RIVERMOUTH author Alejandra Oliva will be giving the keynote at Lit & Luz Festival in Chicago this Sunday, 10/27. Register here: litluz.org/202425-calenda…

"It feels like an outrage, to have only a woman-shaped hole where once there was a mind and scholarship." Alejandra Oliva writes on the search for an elusive, "decreated" Simone Weil translator: commonwealmagazine.org/now-you-see-her

"I feel such a kinship with Craufurd, like she and I would understand each other even across the years and languages." Alejandra Oliva chases traces of the Englishwoman who translated Simone Weil: commonwealmagazine.org/now-you-see-her

“This was what I had wanted: rest and work, community and solitude, a life that could hold it all within the contours and limitations of the everyday.” – Alejandra Oliva christiancentury.org/voices/my-word…

"As for the rest of us—people who love our neighbors, even the sort you nod at from down the street—it’s up to us to make ourselves visible." Alejandra Oliva on an immigration crackdown in Chicago: commonwealmagazine.org/ICE-immigratio…

"Local news outlets focus less on the arrests and more on the conspicuous absence in city life where immigrants were once present." Alejandra Oliva: 'Visibly Invisible' commonwealmagazine.org/ICE-immigratio…

Lent is a season of reflection—but also a season to prepare for the work ahead, to sweep aside everything that has not worked and find new ways through the desert. Alejandra Oliva: 'A Way in the Wilderness' commonwealmagazine.org/lent-reflectio…