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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.

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