Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is an American author and former lawyer.

Biography Marzano-Lesnevich received their B.A. from Columbia University, M.F.A. from Emerson College, and J.D. from Harvard Law School. They were a three-time MacDowell fellow and 2023 United States Artists fellow.

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, 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. 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.

Marzano-Lesnevich is currently Assistant Professor and Rogers Communications Chair in Creative Non-Fiction at the University of British Columbia; they were previously an Assistant Professor of English at Bowdoin College. They write extensively about transgender issues.