Elvis Alves is the author of four full length collections of poetry and three chapbooks. His book I Am No Battlefield But A Forest Of Trees Growing (2018) was awarded the Jacopone Da Todi Poetry Prize sponsored by Franciscan University, Steubenville, Ohio. Bitter Melon was published in 2013 and Blackfish was published in 2022. His latest book is Exile Is Home (2025). Poetry Magazine featured Elvis’s poem, Parchman Prison, in its February 2021 issue on mass incarceration in America. Elvis’s poetry has appeared in Transition, Sojourners, Caribbean Writer Journal, and other publications. Elvis also writes for the Good Men Project, an online site that calls attention to pertinent issues affecting our society and world and that seeks to redress these issues. In 2025, he was a finalist for the Poetic Justice Institute Editor’s Prize (Fordham University). His website is www.elvisalves.com