Alexis M. Wright

Alexis M. Wright is a writer whose work explores memory, estrangement, and the ways creative lives are shaped by community. Her essays have appeared in The Common, Shenandoah, and elsewhere, and one was selected as a notable essay in The Best American Essays series. She is currently at work on an essay collection, The Value of Discarded Things, and is represented by Julia Kim at The Rights Factory. In addition to her writing, Alexis is the Education Programs Manager at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and a former Tin House Scholar and Reading Fellow, programs that now live under the McCormack Writing Center. She is especially interested in conversations that make visible the labor, care, and infrastructure behind art.