Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

Alex is the author of award winning The Fact of a Body, which received a Lambda Literary Award, Chautauqua Prize, Grand Prix des Lectrices Elle, Prix des Libraires du Quebec, and Prix France Inter-JDD. It was translated into 11 languages. They live and work in Vancouver, Canada, on the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people. Alex was a United States Artists Fellow and is now the Rogers Communications Chair in Creative Nonfiction at the University of British Columbia. At Mesa, they worked on their next book, a transgender and trans-genre researched memoir called Both and Neither.