Alex DiFrancesco is a multi-genre writer and transmasc person (they/them) who is the author of Transmutation, All City, Psychopomps, and Breaking the Curse. Their work has appeared in New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Electric Literature, Lit Hub, Tin House, Pacific Standard, Eater, Brevity, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and more. They are the winner of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for 2022. Their novel All City was the first award finalist by a transgender author in over 80 years of the Ohioana Book Awards. They formerly served as an assistant editor for Sundress Publications in Tennessee, and formerly edited LGBTQIA+ non-fiction for Jessica Kingsley Publishers. DiFrancesco lives in Philadelphia, where they work as a pastry sous-chef and adjunct writing professor, and is the human companion of a middle-aged, ill-mannered Westie named Roxy Music, Dog of Doom, and a baby boy cat named Jackie.