Rivera, Alice Vedral

Alice Vedral Rivera is Czech-American and was born in a refugee camp in Germany. She immigrated to the US with her parents when she was about 20 months old. As a child, she read anything she could get her hands on. She started writing poems in Czech at the tender age of ten at summer camp in Canada. In the mid 1990's, she finally gathered enough courage to share her very personal writing with more than a few friends and some of her poems were published in various anthologies. In 2005, three of her poems were included in the inaugural issue of the Poemhunter Anthology. Her first book, "Dearest