Gustavo Alvarenga

Gustavo Alvarenga is a Salvadoran American immigrant writer based out of Las Vegas, NV where he is completing an MFA in Fiction at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His work focuses on heritage, cultural exile, his relationship to language, and liminal spaces. He explores these themes through boundaries, both literal and metaphorical such as the border between life and the afterlife and as such his work often features the dead, the dying, and the undead. He recently completed a week-long conference at the 2025 Tin House Writer’s Workshop in Portland where he studied under Julián Delgado Lopera. His literary influences include Toni Morrison, Sandra Cisneros, Louise Erdrich, and Gina Maria Balibrera just to name a few. He enjoys being outdoors with his dog Nissa where they go camping, fishing, and rock climbing as well as a good board game night with friends.