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Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is a 2023 United States Artists Fellow and the author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir (Flatiron Books, 2017), which received several international prizes. Their essays have been published in Harper’s, Harvard Review, AGNI, and other magazines, and anthologized in the 2020 and 2022 editions of The Best American Essays. They live in Vancouver, where they are the Rogers Communications Chair in Creative Non-fiction and an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia. Their next book, Both and Neither, is forthcoming from publishers internationally.

Nonfiction

Fall 2024

Heartbeat

By Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

My heart is swollen. More accurately, the lining that stretches around it, one of the countless sacs and membranes that make up me and that I never think about and […]