Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
{{Short description|American author and former lawyer}}
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| education = Columbia University (BA)
Emerson College (MFA)
Harvard Law School (JD)
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| awards = Grand prix des lectrices de Elle (2019)
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir or Biography (2018)
Chautauqua Prize (2018)
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Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is an American author and former lawyer.{{Cite web |date=2017-05-17 |title=Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich's The Fact of a Body Is a True Crime Masterpiece |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/the-fact-of-a-body-alexandria-marzano-lesnevich-interview |access-date=2022-06-06 |website=Vogue |language=en-US}}
Biography
Marzano-Lesnevich received their B.A. from Columbia University, M.F.A. from Emerson College, and J.D. from Harvard Law School.{{Cite web |title=Alex Marzano-Lesnevich |url=https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/amarzano/index.html |access-date=2022-06-06 |website=Faculty and Staff Profiles |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2021-01-29 |title=Zagar '03 to Direct HBO Adaptation of Alum Marzano-Lesnevich's Memoir |url=https://today.emerson.edu/2021/01/29/zagar-03-to-direct-hbo-adaptation-of-alum-marzano-lesnevichs-memoir/ |access-date=2022-06-06 |website=Emerson Today |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Alumni in the News {{!}} Columbia College Today |url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/archive/nov_dec10/around_the_quads3 |access-date=2022-06-06 |website=www.college.columbia.edu}} They were a three-time MacDowell fellow{{Cite web |title=Alex Marzano-Lesnevich - MacDowell Fellow in Literature |url=https://www.macdowell.org/artists/alex-marzano-lesnevich |access-date=2024-03-14 |website=MacDowell |language=en}} and 2023 United States Artists fellow.{{Cite web |title=United States Artists » Alex Marzano-Lesnevich |url=https://www.unitedstatesartists.org/fellow/alex-marzano-lesnevich/ |access-date=2024-03-14 |language=en-US}}
Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, which received the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir or Biography,{{Cite web |date=2017-07-26 |title=Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich on Writing Her True Crime Novel |url=https://lambdaliterary.org/2017/07/aalexandria-marzano-lesnevich-on-writing-the-body-and-damning-the-outline/ |access-date=2022-06-06 |website=Lambda Literary |language=en}} the 2018 Chautauqua Prize, the 2019 Grand prix des lectrices de Elle in nonfiction, and was optioned by HBO to develop into a limited series.{{Cite web |last=White |first=Peter |date=2021-01-26 |title=HBO Developing Adaptation Of Alex Marzano-Lesnevich's Memoir 'The Fact Of A Body' With Jeremiah Zagar & Melissa Bernstein |url=https://deadline.com/2021/01/hbo-alex-marzano-lesnevich-memoir-the-fact-of-a-body-jeremiah-zagar-melissa-bernstein-1234680359/ |access-date=2022-06-06 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Goldberg |first=Lesley |date=2021-01-26 |title='The Fact of a Body' TV Series in the Works at HBO |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/the-fact-of-a-body-tv-series-in-the-works-at-hbo-4121798/ |access-date=2022-06-06 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}} The book recounts the story of Marzano-Lesnevich being assigned to defend a pedophile and child murderer in Louisiana who killed and likely molested a six-year-old boy in 1992, and had their faith against the death penalty shaken after watching the man's videotaped confession.{{Cite news |last=Leun |first=Justine van der |date=2017-07-21 |title=At a Law Firm that Defended a Child Murderer, an Intern Recalls Her Own Childhood Abuse |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/books/review/the-fact-of-a-body-memoir-alexandria-marzano-lesnevich.html |access-date=2022-06-06 |issn=0362-4331}}
Marzano-Lesnevich is currently Assistant Professor and Rogers Communications Chair in Creative Non-Fiction at the University of British Columbia;{{Cite web |title=Meet the new faculty in Creative Writing 2023 |url=https://creativewriting.ubc.ca/news/meet-the-new-faculty-in-creative-writing-2023/ |access-date=2024-03-14 |website=Creative Writing |language=en-CA}}{{Cite web |title=Alex Marzano-Lesnevich |url=https://creativewriting.ubc.ca/profile/alex-marzano-lesnevich/ |access-date=2024-03-14 |website=Creative Writing |language=en-CA}} they were previously an Assistant Professor of English at Bowdoin College.{{Cite web |title=Alex Marzano-Lesnevich and a Double Dose of Joy and Empowerment in Two New York Times Pieces |url=https://www.bowdoin.edu/news/2021/06/alex-marzano-lesnevich-and-a-double-dose-of-joy-and-empowerment-in-two-new-york-times-pieces.html |access-date=2022-06-06 |website=News |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=English Professor Alex Marzano-Lesnevich Honored by Maine Arts Commission |url=https://www.bowdoin.edu/news/2020/11/english-professor-alex-marzano-lesnevich-honored-by-maine-arts-commission.html |access-date=2024-03-14 |website=News |language=en}} They write extensively about transgender issues.{{Cite news |last=Marzano-Lesnevich |first=Alex |date=2021-04-02 |title=Opinion {{!}} How Do I Define My Gender if No One Is Watching Me? |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/opinion/transgender-nonbinary-pandemic-transition-.html |access-date=2022-06-06 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news |last=Marzano-Lesnevich |first=Alex |date=2019-04-17 |title=Opinion {{!}} Flying While Trans |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/opinion/tsa-transgender.html |access-date=2022-06-06 |issn=0362-4331}}
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Category:Columbia College (New York) alumni
Category:Emerson College alumni
Category:Harvard Law School alumni
Category:Lambda Literary Award winners
Category:Bowdoin College faculty
Category:American LGBTQ novelists
Category:Transgender non-binary people
Category:Transgender novelists
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)