Peggy Robles-Alvarado is a Jerome Hill Foundation Fellow in Literature, a 2023 Inaugural Fellow of the Latinx Playwrights Circle Summer Jam Program supported by The Dramatist Guild, and a recipient of the 2023 Bronx Cultural Visions Grant supported by the Howard Gilman Foundation for concept development of her solo poetic theater experiment titled MUSTBE>THAN21GRAMS. Peggy is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, an Atticus Review Poetry Contest winner, and a BRIO award winner who earned writing fellowships from CantoMundo, Desert Nights, The Frost Place, VONA, The Ashbery Home School and NALAC. With advanced degrees in education and an MFA in Performance Studies, this three-time International Latino Book Award winner authored Conversations With My Skin, and Homage To The Warrior Women. She also serves as dramaturg and director of the poetic play LIVE BIG GIRL whose first version sold out all performances in 2017 and whose latest version LIVE BIG GIRL:A CHAIR THAT FITS is forthcoming in October of 2023. 

As a performance poet her work has been featured in Solfest- A Latine Theater Festival 2023, The Dodge Poetry Festival, HBO Habla Women, Lincoln Center Out Of Doors, Pregones Theater, Harlem 9 Presents: 48 Hours En El Bronx, Smithsonian Institute- Museum of the American Indian, Pen America World Voices Festival, Harvard University, Association of Writers and Writing Programs Tampa, FL, Pratt Institute, Columbia University, and NYU Latinx Caribbean Poetry Festival. 

Peggy’s poetry has been highly anthologized and appears in The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, ¡Manteca! an Anthology of Afro- Latin@ Poets by Arte Publico Press, great weather for MEDIA, What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump, The Poetry Unbound Anthology and The Soul Sister Revue Anthology. Online Peggy has been published in Poets.org, Tribes.org, The Quarry at Split This Rock, The Common, 92Y.org #wordswelivein, Centro Voices Letras Literary Journal, NACLA.org and served as guest editor for The Acentos Review: Performance of Breath issue. 

Through her 501c3 literary organization, Robleswrites Productions Inc., (robleswritesproductions.com) she created an online poetry journal for women of color called Lalibreta.online, and a collaborative anthology and online digital archive titled The Abuela Stories Project as well as many other literary events that foster intergenerational communal healing and literacy. Learn more @ Robleswrites.com.