Alexis Sears

Alexis Sears is the author of Out of Order, winner of the 2021 Donald Justice Poetry Prize and the Poetry by the Sea Book Award: Best Book of 2022, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize nominee. Her work appears in Best American Poetry, Poet Lore, Cortland Review, Cimarron Review, Subtropics, and elsewhere. A recipient of fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Kenyon Review Summer Residential Writers Workshop, she earned her MFA in poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her BA in Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University. She lives in Southern California.