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Alex Jennings was born on Wiesbaden AFB in Germany, in 1979. Since then, he has lived with his diplomat father and the rest of his family in Gaborone, Botswana, Paramaribo, Surinam, Tunis, Tunisia, and the D.C. area.
After a stint at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, Jennings attended the Clarion West Writers Workshop in 2003. Since 2006, he's lived in New Orleans, working as a nonprofit fundraiser, entertainment journalist, and teacher, in addition to his writing work. He probably drinks too much cold brew coffee, and he definitely spends too much time surfing the internet for bizarre news stories.
Along with his friends, Jennings has acted as MC and co-producer of the Dogfish Readings series, a monthly literary reading and open mic in St. Roch, New Orleans. The readings series has run for nearly four years, and Jennings calls it his "pride and joy."Some of his preoccupations include Afrofuturism, comic books, horror media, and standup comedy. Influences include Octavia E. Butler, Nisi Shawl, Victor Lavalle, Junot Diaz, and Jazz. He is currently finishing a novel set in an alternate New Orleans where music and magic are the same. You can find him on twitter or instagram as @magicknegro
Genres: Fantasy
Alex Jennings recommends
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon (2023)
Wole Talabi
"Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon is an explosion made of other explosions. As soon as I read the opening - taut, rollicking, rooted in physicality and emotion - I was charmed. This book is incantation, a sorcerous working that bound me to its story and drew me along as it sped toward its destination. Wole Talabi is a brilliant short fiction writer, and now he is revealed as a brilliant novelist, as well!"
Anthologies containing stories by Alex Jennings
The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction: 2022 (2023)
(Year's Best African Speculative Fiction)
edited by
Eugen Bacon, Milton Davis and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
From a Certain Point of View: Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (2023)
(Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View, book 3)
New Suns 2 (2023)
Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
(New Suns, book 2)
edited by
Nisi Shawl
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