Alvaro’s book of interviews with Robert Silverberg, Traveler of Worlds, was a Hugo and Locus award finalist. Alvaro’s more than thirty stories and one hundred reviews, essays and interviews have appeared  in magazines like Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, Analog, Lightspeed, Nature, Tor.com, Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Galaxy’s Edge, Lackington’s, and anthologies such as The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016, Cyber World, Humanity 2.0, and This Way to the End Times. Alvaro has a book review column at Intergalactic Medicine Show, a film review column at Words, and he edits the roundtable blog for Locus. He has a degree in Theoretical Physics from the Universidad Autónoma Madrid.