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Despite some discouraging cancelled lectures, Alfaro, an English concentrator, began to develop her voice as a writer in her creative writing classes, which she said were her favorite. “They were small next to the large English lecture courses,” Alfaro said. “You suddenly felt like a real person...
...women’s movement had only just begun to take form, and while most of her fellow classmates went straight from the dorms of Radcliffe to the role of housewife, Alfaro opted to further her education. Alfaro continued her studies at Berkeley, then began teaching English at Boston State College...
...1970s, Alfaro decided to dedicate her time to raising her two children. It wasn’t until Alfaro and her husband moved to Canada that her writing really began to take off; while living there, she published 21 short stories...
Soon after, Alfaro began working on a novel about the Japanese internment camps—or at least attempting to. “In reality, it was really just plain awful but I realized it fit perfectly into three acts, so I thought maybe I should try turning it into a play. After that I never looked back,” she said...
David Gidron, who began directing many of Alfaro’s plays 15 years ago, said it was her honesty and variety that drew him to her work...