Bio

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Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, which received a Lambda Literary Award, the Chautauqua Prize, the Grand Prix des Lectrices Elle, the Prix des Libraires du Quebec, and the Prix France Inter-JDD. It was translated into 10 languages and was named to “best of the year” lists on three continents.Their next book is Both and Neither: A Memoir and a History of Gender (Or, a Haunting), forthcoming in February 2027 from Doubleday and publishers internationally.

 

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Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, which received a Lambda Literary Award, the Chautauqua Prize, the Grand Prix des Lectrices Elle, the Prix des Libraires du Quebec, and the Prix France Inter-JDD. It was translated into 10 languages and was named to “best of the year” lists on three continents. Their essays appear in The Best American Essays 2020 and 2022 editions, as well as Harper’s, The New York Times, The Yale Review, Agni, Elle France, and many other publications. The recipient of fellowships from the United States Artists Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Eccles Centre at the British Library, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Camargo, Dora Maar, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, and the Maine Arts Commission, among other honors, Marzano-Lesnevich is a three-time fellow at both MacDowell and Yaddo. A Harvard JD and Emerson MFA, they have presented their work widely, from co-emceeing the 7th World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Brussels and lecturing on public policy approaches in Phnom Penh, to appearances at book festivals throughout North America and in the UK, France, and Australia. Marzano-Lesnevich is former faculty at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and Chan School of Public Health, as well as being a former assistant professor at Bowdoin College in Maine. They now live in Vancouver, Canada, where they are an assistant professor and the Rogers Communications Chair in Creative Nonfiction at the University of British Columbia. Their next book, which received both a Creative Capital Award and a Whiting Creative Nonfiction grant, is Both and Neither: A Memoir and a History of Gender (Or, a Haunting), forthcoming in February 2027 from Doubleday and publishers internationally.