Alexis M. Wright
Alexis M. Wright is a California native based in Massachusetts. Her lyric essay “Which One is the Lifeline?” (The Common) was named a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2023. Her work appears in the Maine Review and Mamas, Martyrs, and Jezebels, with an excerpt recognized as a finalist in 2023 CRAFT Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest. She is a 2025 Tin House Reading Fellow, 2023 Tin House Scholar, a Bread Loaf Contributor Award recipient, and holds an MFA from the University of San Francisco. Alexis also teaches writing at The Loft, GrubStreet, and midnight & indigo.
Reading List
How I Learned to Read: An Abecedarian Primer
For a long time, I read for pleasure, imagining myself in a wardrobe or on a giant peach, racing through summer library reading challenges to get sticker after sticker after sticker.