Nina Alvarez

Hi, I’m Nina Alvarez — a writer, publisher, and producer with a background in theater, publishing, and audio storytelling. I’m the founder of Cosmographia Books, a small press celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2025, and the creator of the audio series WKOZ Camp Cosmographia Radio. As a playwright, my work has been staged at the Geva 2 Pages/2 Voices Festival, East End Theatre (full production), and the 24-Hour Plays.

I bring that same love of dialogue, performance, and atmosphere into my audio drama writing. In addition to writing and producing, I have hands-on experience with video and sound editing, and I enjoy collaborating with actors to bring scripts to life.

My current project is Spartans!, an 8-episode teen ghost story anthology set in the 1990s — think Are You Afraid of the Dark? meets grunge mixtapes and haunted high schools.

Each episode has a different narrator, and the series will premiere the second-to-last Wednesday of every month with commercial music on Substack at The Cosmographia Codex, a community of readers and writers—and then a week later on major podcast platforms (Spotify, etc/) without the commercial music.

Listen to the first episode of the Spartans! anthology, THE JACKET, narrated by Mark Taudevin:

At the Cosmographia Codex

https://cosmographiacodex.substack.com/p/the-jacket-a-spartans-campfire-story-da0

Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/show/0zNP43bMKMHLMVffTkNocm

Apple

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spartans/id1844373848

Amazon Music

https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/b0b0aa30-1954-4638-aa14-ae689b55c0c8/spartans

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S9YXvnv3Pc&t=752s

I love working with talented voice actors who can capture intimacy, wonder, menace, and tenderness: the spirit of the campfire story.