Rafael Alvarez is a writer based in his hometown of Baltimore, the setting for virtually all of his fiction, journalism, and memoir. His biography of a Baltimore badass turned do-gooder—Don't Count Me Out: The Bruce White Story—will be released in 2022 by Cornell University Press. A former staff writer for the HBO drama The Wire, Alvarez learned his craft on the city desk of the Baltimore Sun as a young man. He can be reached at orlo.leini@gmail.com.
By Rafael Alvarez:
A Lovely Place, A Fighting Place, A Charmer: The Baltimore Anthology