Alexander Lumans recently had a short story of his named a "Distinguished Story of 2020" in the Best American Short Stories 2021 anthology. He was awarded a 2018 NEA Creative Writing Grant in Fiction. He was also awarded a fellowship to The 2015 Arctic Circle Residency and was the Spring 2014 Philip Roth Resident at Bucknell University. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Paris Review, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, Guernica, The Walrus, Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, Off Assignment, Story Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, American Short Fiction, among others. He has received support from MacDowell, Yaddo, Arteles Creative Center (Finland), Jentel, ART OMI, VCCA, Brush Creek, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, among others; he’s also received scholarships to the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He lives and teaches in Denver.
