Alex Jennings

Alex Jennings is a lifelong fan and creator of SF/F. His fiction, nonfiction, and verse have appeared in dozens of venues, including The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Africa Risen, and New Suns 2. He is a graduate of the University of New Orleans. He was born in Wiesbaden (Germany) and raised in Gaborone (Botswana), Paramaribo (Surinam), and Tunis (Tunisia) as well as Columbia, MD. He is also an instructor of popular fiction at the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program. In 2021, he was selected as the inaugural Imagination Unbound Fellowship at Under The Volcano. His writing has been short listed for numerous awards, including the Ray Bradbury Prize for Speculative Fiction, the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Fantasy Novel, The Locus Award for Best First Novel. He received the BSFA’s Compton Crook Award in 2023. His debut novel, The Ballad of Perilous Graves, is available wherever books are sold. He is currently at work on a new novel entitled Dead End Boys and a poetry collection called The Power Cosmic.