Alex DiFrancesco

ALEX DIFRANCESCO is a multi-genre writer and transmasc person who is the author of Transmutation, All City, and Psychopomps. Their work has appeared in New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Tin House, Pacific Standard, Eater, Brevity, Vol. 1 Brooklyn,and more.They are the recipient of grants and fellowships from PEN America, Sundress Academy for the Arts, and the winner of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for 2022. Alex DiFrancesco's Transmutation- Stories (2021), a collection of short fiction about trans people in a mostly non-trans world, was lauded as "eclectic, absorbing" in the New York Times Book Review. Their novel All City (2019), a masterful envisioning of a near-future, underwater New York, was praised by Publishers Weeklyas a "loving, grieving warning that thoughtfully traces the resilience, fragility, and joy of precarious communities in an immediate, compassionate voice." It was also a first awards finalist by a transgender author in over 80 years of the Ohioana Book Awards. They formerly served as an assistant editor for Sundress Publications in Tennessee, and currently edit LGBTQIA+ non-fiction for Jessica Kingsley Publishers. DiFrancesco lives in Philadelphia and is the human companion of a middle-aged, ill-mannered Westie named Roxy Music, Dog of Doom.