Lorena Alvarado is a writer, poet, and interdisciplinary scholar of popular music and Mexican vernacular song. She has published her work in the Routledge Companion of Latina/o Media, The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature, as well as in Women and Performance, among other publications. The poetry in Reparaciones is a dual tribute to her South East L.A. hometown, Huntington Park, and the costurerx. The themes of manual labor, urban immigrant life, public transportation, and working-class femininity of color are also present in her other poetic works, including her chapbook, Red Line Lullaby.
