Alex Manley is a 35-year-old non-binary person (they/them pronouns) who has lived in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke their whole life.

In 2013, they graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from the creative writing program at Concordia University, where they were an editor at the award-winning The Link student newspaper for three years. From 2013 to 2018, they were a full-time editor at AskMen, and they returned there recently as senior editor. Their essays, fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous print and online publications, including The Walrus, Hazlitt, Vulture, Catapult, Maisonneuve magazine, Carte Blanche, the Literary Review of Canada, Grain, Vallum, The Puritan, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day feature, among others, and they have been a finalist for both a National Magazine Award and a Digital Publishing Award. Their debut poetry collection, We Are All Just Animals & Plants, was published by Metatron Press in 2016; a second book, Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture Under Late Capitalism, an English-language translation of Daphné B.’s Maquillée (Marchand de feuilles, 2020), was published by Coach House Books in Fall 2021. Their non-fiction debut, The New Masculinity: A Roadmap for a 21st-Century Definition of Manhood, was published in May 2023 by ECW Press. They are represented by Carly Watters of P.S. Literary Agency.

photos: Blair Elliott