LA-Lit interviewed José Alvergue on Sunday, February 19, 2006 at 5pm.

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José Felipe Alvergue writes in LA. Born in El Salvador, he grew up in San Ysidro, on the US|México Border. While a student at UCSD, he became friends with members of the Taco Shop Poets, and later joined them, redcalaca press (previously known as Calaca Press), and other local artists, writers and activists, as a board member of Voz Alta, a not for profit Chicano/a art gallery and social collective. José is a graduate of the Cal Arts MFA writing program, and has been published in Temper, M.AG., Fourteen Hills, Nocturnes (audio CD), Black Clock and is slated to appear in the upcoming issue of Trepan 5. He is an educator living in LA.

José read from the manuscript of his novel         -american.