Juan Alvarado Valdivia is a young author from San Francisco. Juan’s life began in Guadalajara, Mexico and he later grew up in San Francisco. After attending San Francisco State University and working as an HR coordinator, he wrote stories, blogs, and is working on a memoir. Juan used his graduate studies at Saint Mary’s College of California to help his battle with lymphoma. Today, he lives in California, is working on his memoir and hopes to write a collection of short stories.