Author: Justin Álvarez

Justin Alvarez is the digital director at The Paris Review. His work has appeared in Guernica and Flatmancrooked's Slim Volume of Contemporary Poetics. He lives in New York City.

A World of My Own

When I was a kid, I would spend hours drawing maps of fictional towns. Sometimes, it would start with a river running down the page; other times, a mountain.

This Is Growing Up

I’d decided to study in Florence on a whim, after having vaguely planned my entire sophomore year on traveling to Prague to study film at the famed FAMU.