Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir (Flatiron Books, 2017), which received a Lambda Literary Award, the Chautauqua Prize, the Grand Prix des Lectrices ELLE, the Prix des libraires du Quebec 2020, and the Prix France Inter-JDD. It was translated into eleven languages and is in development with HBO. They have received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Eccles Centre at the British Library, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, and the Maine Arts Commission. A portion of their second book, Both and Neither (forthcoming from Doubleday), was chosen for The Best American Essays 2020. (updated 4/2022)