About Alex

It is said Alex has known they wanted to be a writer since the age of two, when they would carry around and scribble in their mother's Tomb Raider guide. Alex would argue they started instead when they were six, writing fanfiction of their parents' World of Warcraft characters. Regardless, their obsession with the written word has been one long-lived and one planted early. From Warrior Cats to The Witches of Eileanan and beyond, Alex has always had a fascination with the fantastical and the strange, the human and the other.

Come early high school, Alex would develop their longest-lasting fantasy world (and several accompanying projects) to date: Mesiphrae. Their first source of inspiration was found in the works of FromSoft, which would continue to be an inspiration to them as they got older. Mesiphrae would first see itself featured in Alex's first published short, "The Temple on Cicaro Hill", and has continued to grow and change as they have. Its most recent appearance was in A Sharper, More Lasting Pain.

Alex loves all things monstrous, and often find themself writing characters with grimy coats between their layers. Even heroic characters land on the scuffed side of perfect. Alex likes to focus on themes of self-actualization and discovery as an adult, complex relationships of all sorts, disability and neurodivergency, and the many shapes of queerness. Most often, this takes form in sapphic sometimes-women. More recently, this has included a delve into the culture of Malta, where their family is from.

When they aren't writing, Alex daylights as an aircraft sealer for a massive aerospace company, plays video games from their sizeable collection, inhales video essays on a variety of topics, and reads the books of their indie peers. They find kinship in their doting partner and their three children: Sagora the snake, Lyndis the turtle, and Wisp the cat. Inspiration for them lies in everything they touch.

An image of Alex tabling at a book event. They are wearing a white turtleneck and a brown plaid skirt and holding a pen to sign books with. Before them is a stack of books on a table.

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