Stegner Lecture

42nd annual lecture, titled "A Landscape, a Narrator and a Journey." Alvarado is a short story writer, essayist and teacher. She lived in Tucson, Ariz., where she taught at the University of Arizona for many years before moving to central Oregon where she teaches for the Low Residency MFA Program at Oregon State University-Cascades. The author of four books, Alvarado has written extensively about marrying, as a white woman, into her late husband's Mexican American family when she was 19 years old. Her essay collection "Anxious Attachments," which one reviewer called "a love song to Fernando," won the 2020 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and was long listed for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. In 2020, she was awarded an Oregon Literary Career Fellowship. Alvarado earned her bachelor's degree in English and creative writing from the University of Arizona, a master's in literature from Stanford University and her master's in creative writing from the University of Arizona. Lewis-Clark State College has a history of presenting an annual lecture titled after Wallace Stegner. The annual Stegner Lecture has been a literary-cultural highlight for the LCSC community since its creation in 1982. The lecture features discussions about the writer’s relationship with the physical and psychological territories in which he or she resides.