Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir, which received a Lambda Literary Award, the Chautauqua Prize, the Grand Prix des Lectrices ELLE, the Prix des libraires du Quebec, and the Prix France Inter-JDD. It was translated into eleven languages and is in development with HBO. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Eccles Centre at the British Library, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, and the Maine Arts Commission, among other honors, they are now at work on their second book, BOTH AND NEITHER, which will be a gender-and-genre-bending blend of memoir, history, trans re-imaginings, and international road trip about life beyond the binary. Excerpted in THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2020, it is forthcoming from Doubleday and publishers internationally.