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Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

Author of The Fact of A Body

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Other Writing

Selected Creative Nonfiction:

  • “Everything and More,” Agni
  • “Who Should Be Allowed to Transition?,” The New York Times
  • “Futurity,” Harvard Review (will appear in The Best American Essays 2022)
  • “The Healing Power of Queer Coming-of-Age Stories,” The New York Times
  • “Letter of Recommendation: X,” The New York Times
  • “How Do I Define My Gender if No One is Watching Me?,” The New York Times
  • “Body Language,” Harper’s (will appear in The Best American Essays 2020)
  • “Flying While Trans,” The New York Times
  • “Letter of Recommendation: Dissecting a Human Body,” The New York Times
  • “Our Bodies Don’t Belong to Us,” Lit Hub
  • “The Taste of Sardines,” Hotel Amerika
  • “Gunpowder,” Los Angeles Review
  • “The Trouble With Knives,” Iowa Review
  • “Towards A Fight,” The Rumpus
  • “Step One,” Alimentum
  • “The Wrong Kind of Queer,” Salon
  • “Origins of a Murder: Investigating the Crimes– and the Humanity– of a Killer,” Oxford American (Issue 78, New South Journalism)  (Reprinted on Gawker)
  • “Cello,” TriQuarterly Online (Pushcart Prize nominee)
  • “Modern Love: A Twist of Fate,” The New York Times
  • “The Writer and the Psychopath,” Bookslut

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