Alex Jeffers

{{short description|American novelist and short story writer}}

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|name=Alex Jeffers

|occupation={{flatlist|

• Novelist
• short story writer

}}

|nationality=American

|awards=Lambda Literary Award (2014)

|relatives=Robinson Jeffers (grandfather)

}}

Alex Jeffers is an American novelist and short story writer. He is the grandson of Robinson Jeffers. His work has appeared in The Pioneer,{{cite web|url=http://whitmanpioneer.com/author/alexjeffers/|title=Alex Jeffers: Articles|date=2014|publisher=The Pioneer|accessdate=2014-06-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809013550/http://whitmanpioneer.com/author/alexjeffers/|archive-date=2014-08-09|url-status=dead}} the North American Review, Blithe House Quarterly, and Fantasy and Science Fiction.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fEsGE1FMHaoC&q=alex+jeffers+north+american+review&pg=PT168|title=Do You Remember Tulum?: Novella in the Form of a Love Letter|last=Jeffers|first=Alex|date=2010|publisher=Lethe Press|page=159|isbn=9781590213483|accessdate=2014-06-10}} He also contributed to and served as an editor for the gay-oriented science fiction magazine Icarus,{{cite web|url=http://www.tor.com/blogs/2010/12/queering-sff-icarus-the-magazine-of-gay-speculative-fiction|title=Queering SFF: Icarus, the Magazine of Gay Speculative Fiction|last=Mandelo|first=Lee|date=December 30, 2010|publisher=Tor Books|accessdate=2014-06-10}} as well as overseeing the BrazenHead imprint of Lethe Press.{{cite web|url=http://www.lethepressbooks.com/brazenhead.htm|title=BrazenHead|date=2014|publisher=Lethe Press|accessdate=2014-06-10}}

Jeffers's novel The Padishah's Son and the Fox received the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Erotica,{{cite news|url=http://www.nola.com/books/index.ssf/2014/06/lambda_literary_awards_rain_do.html|title=Looking for summer reading? Lambda Literary Awards rain down a host of choices|last=Waddington|first=Chris|date=June 3, 2014|newspaper=The Times-Picayune|accessdate=2014-06-10}} while Deprivation; or, Benedetto Furioso: An Oneiromancy was also nominated in the Science Fiction category.{{cite web|url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/26th-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists-and-winners/|title=26th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists and Winners|date=2014|publisher=Lambda Literary Foundation|accessdate=2014-06-10|archive-date=2019-04-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403104618/http://www.lambdaliterary.org/26th-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists-and-winners/|url-status=dead}} Jeffers had previously been nominated for a Gaylactic Spectrum Award in 2010.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Spectrum22010.html |title=2010 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards |last=Kelly |first=Mark |date=2011 |magazine=Locus Publications |accessdate=2014-08-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130520150247/http://locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Spectrum22010.html |archivedate=2013-05-20 }}