Alex Myers

Alex Myers (born c.1979) is an American author, educator and transgender rights activist.

Early life and education Myers was born in Paris, Maine. As a teenager, he attended Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. While at Harvard he worked to have gender identity added to the school's nondiscrimination clause.

His first book Revolutionary was released in 2014. The book was a finalist for the 2015 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction.

Released in 2019, his novel Continental Divide follows Ron Bancroft who grows up as a tomboy, comes out as a teenager and travels west to find himself. In an interview with New Hampshire Public Radio Myers discussed how his own experience with transitioning was reflected in the main character Ron in his novel Continental Divide explaining: "The parallels in my own life would be a rural childhood, a feeling of always being a boy despite society telling me that I was a girl, and then going off to a more urban college experience with a bit more exposure to a range of differences."

Myers' third book The Story of Silence (2020) is a retelling of Le Roman de Silence.

Personal life Myers is a transgender man. Having studied the first three years as a woman, he returned to campus senior year with his hair cut and requested that he be called Alex.

Publications

Novels

Revolutionary (2014) Continental Divide (2019) The Story of Silence (2020) The Symmetry of Stars (2021) While We Were Silent (2026)

Non-fiction

Supporting Transgender Students: Understanding Gender Identity and Reshaping School Culture (2021)

Articles