Victoria N. Alexander, Ph.D., is a literary fiction novelist, writing about censored and controversial subjects with audacity, humor, and compassion. Her honors include the Washington Prize for Fiction (Smoking Hopes ) Dallas Observer ‘s “Best of 2003” (Naked Singularity ) and the Literary Fiction Book Review award (Locus Amoenus). Her latest novel, Locus Amoenus , was also a Dayton Literary Peace Prize nominee. Her fiction is published by The Permanent Press . She is the editor of Dactyl Review and is currently working on a collection of short stories called Chance that Mimics Choice.
Alexander is also a philosopher of science, author of The Biologist’s Mistress: Rethinking Self-Organization in Art, Literature and Nature . She is a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center alum, former Public Scholar for the New York Council for the Humanities. She serves on the editorial boards of Biosemiotics journal (Springer Publishing) and Meaning Systems book series (Fordham University Press). Her work in saltational evolutionary theory appears in Fine Lines: Nabokov’s Scientific Art , published by Yale University Press, which has received much praise from major international publications. She will be at the Digital Humanities Lab at ITMO University in St Petersburg, Russia on a Fulbright grant beginning in 2020. See full CV .
VNA: alexander (at) dactyl (dot) org
publisher: info (at) thepermanentpress (dot) com
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