Nina Alvarez is published fiction writer and reporter who parlayed her love of web writing into marketing strategies for the publishing company Inconundrum Press. She developed a style of grassroots online community building that she then applied to the promotion of Philadelphia-area artists in her blog PhilthyArt.com and her poetry blog NinaAlvarez.net.

She writes the Artspan blog at Arspan.blogspot.com, offering art marketing advice to visual artists. Nina taught college-level composition and literature and has won awards and fellowships for her writing and teaching.

She received her MA in English from the University at Albany in 2003. Her specific commercial, academic, creative, and journalistic publications can be found at ninaalvarez.net. And all her blogs are widgetized at myspace.com/ninaalvarez.