everything is gorgeous if you really want

everything is gorgeous if you really want

Alex is a writer and visual artist based in Los Angeles. Her work explores emotional processes through surrealism, visceral interiority, and synesthetic play.

Sticky Time, her debut poetry book, is forthcoming with Sunflower Station Press in November 2025.

Find her writing & art published or exhibited with Scaffold Lit, Spectra Poets, Lit Angels, Dream Boy Book Club, ALLGORITHIM, and more.

Very Fun is her first novel. It holds nominations for The Allegra Johnson Prize & The James Kirkwood Prize.

She earned a BA in Literature & Creative Writing from Bowdoin College, works professionally as a copywriter, eats 1-2 apples a day, and really likes it.