mundo: la leyenda de la Vieja Belen / The Best Gift of All: The Legend of La Vieja Belen. Miami: Alfaguara, 2009. (bilingual book) Where Do They Go?. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2016. Poetry The Other Side (El Cocko), Dutton, 1995, Homecoming: New and Selected Poems, Plume, 1996, – reissue of 1984 volume, with new poems The Woman I Kept to Myself, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004; 2011, Nonfiction Something to Declare, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1998, (collected essays) A Wedding in Haiti: The Story of a Friendship. 2012. See also Caribbean literature Latin American literature Latino literature Notes References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . External links Julia Alvarez Papers are held at the Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. Julia Alvarez recorded at the Library of Congress for the Hispanic Division's audio literary archive on March 4, 2015 1950 births Living people 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers American women novelists American women poets Middlebury College alumni Syracuse University alumni American writers of Dominican Republic descent Novelists from New York (state) 20th-century American poets 21st-century American poets United States National Medal of Arts recipients PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award winners Abbot Academy alumni