N.T. Arevalo, as a child of an enlisted Southerner and a Central American immigrant, has spent a life migrating across 41 states, five countries, 30+ odd and not so odd jobs, and the borders of duplicitous and well-coated versions of America.
She holds degrees from the University of Maryland and Harvard University, and has received various recognitions and awards as a student, teacher, policy strategist, and organizational leader. Her latest activities and studies are listed here.
Arevalo has been a voracious reader, curious artist, and music lover since hearing and sight kicked in.
She began writing stories in her South Philly elementary school classrooms at the age of six (apologies to Mrs. DeMarco), multi-character series (including curious drawings of characters in one of a kind get-ups) at the twist of adolescence, and songs in her late teens before going the path of social change manifestos.
In 2010, Arevalo moved permanently from the ethos and logos of persuasive politics and toward exploring, via writing, the pathos behind our human stories.
She now works on short form fiction, the occasional travel piece, and woke up one day with an idea that insists on being a novel, now in revision stage. Her pieces have appeared in the Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times, and San Jose Mercury News, Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, as well as The Rose & Thorn Journal and Eclectica.
Arevalo lives in San Francisco and is the founder and editor of This Generation. She can be reached at writer@arevalossketches.com and followed here.
Arevalo has studied at the Writer's Studio, San Francisco Writer's Grotto, UCLA Extension Writer's Program, Aspen Summer Words, and Women Writing for a Change. She's assisted the editor of Traveler's Tales and is a frequent attendee of Litquake, as well as numerous other literary conversations--whether organized or semi-combustile spontaneous affairs.
Periodically, she'll share "great creations" from artists in the US and beyond, as well as links to recent conversations on the direction and possibilities of literature and the industry--found here.
