is Chief Storyteller for the City & County of Denver, founder & director of the Denver Office of Storytelling and the citywide storytelling &cultural preservation project: I Am Denver. The 2021 Ricardo Salinas Scholar in Fiction at Aspen Words, a 2019 Jack Jones Literary Arts Fellow, a 2019 Vermont Studio Center Fellow & a 2018 Writing by Writers Fellow, Alegría earned an MFA in Fiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts & is a member of Sandra Cisneros' Macondo Writers Workshop.
A filmmaker, career journalist, communications executive & speech writer, she is writing a novel that plays with form & the history of the Southwest.
