2024 Festival:
October 21–27

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

ALEX MARZANO-LESNEVICH (they/them) is the author of The Fact of a Body, which received a Lambda Literary Award, the Chautauqua Prize, the Grand Prix des Lectrices Elle, the Prix des Libraires du Quebec, and the Prix France Inter-JDD. It has been translated into 11 languages and is in development with HBO. A 2023 United States Artists fellow and the Rogers Communications Chair in Creative Nonfiction at the UBC School of Creative Writing, Marzano-Lesnevich’s next book is the transgender and trans-genre researched memoir Both and Neither, forthcoming from Doubleday and publishers internationally.