Alex Crayon

Alex Crayon (he/him) is a Ph.D. candidate in Creative Writing focusing on fiction. Previously, he attended the University of Oklahoma where he received his B.A. in English Writing with minors in Spanish and Classical Culture, and his M.A. in Rhetoric and Writing Studies with a concentration in Creative Writing.

His creative work explores family, addiction, religion, and exile through fantastical and slipstream genres. His scholarly interests include writing center pedagogy and inter-center transfer, contemporary speculative fiction, modern mythological retellings, and social fiction.

Along with his position as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, he assists the KU English Department's literary magazine Cottonwood as a fiction reader. Previously, he worked as a Graduate Writing Consultant and Graduate Coach at the KU Writing Center; he served as editor-in-chief for KU's graduate-run literary magazine LandLocked and interim fiction editor for Cottonwood; and he was a member of the KU English Department's Creative Writing Committee from 2022-2024.