Pansy Maurer-Alvarez (b. 1951) was born in Puerto Rico, grew up in Pennsylvania and did her literary studies in the U.S., Spain and Switzerland. She now lives and writes in Strasbourg, France. Her latest books of poetry are Oranges In January (KFS Press, 2016) and In A Form of Suspension (corrupt press, 2014) and she has 4 previous collections.




From loose pages to issue 119 of our magazine, an anthology of over 100 HLP poets, over a decade of the Loose Award for translated works, the Founders prize for first book in its third year, and a bunch of great books in the works, we couldn’t have come this far without you.