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  VN Alexander, novelist

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 has recently finished a collection of short stories called Chance that Mimics Choice, some of which is featured on The Strange Recital.

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, and 2020 Fulbright Scholar at the Digital Humanities Lab at ITMO University in St Petersburg, Russia. She is a member of the Third Way of Evolution group and 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. See full CV.

  Dactyl Review
  • Hiking Underground by Amy Smiley
  • MacLeish Sq. by Dennis Must
  • Ponckhockie Union by Brent Robison 
  Dactyl Foundation
  • The Strange Recital receives Ben Jorgensen Memorial Fund Award
  • Dactyl Art-Science researcher J. Augustus Bacigalupi on Quant/Qual
  • Marcella Faria at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study
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