Alexandra Wuest is a writer based in New York. Her fiction has appeared in Columbia Journal, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, Peach Mag, and X-R-A-Y, and is forthcoming from Electric Literature’s The Commuter, Joyland, and the North American Review. Her short story “The Fathers” was selected as an honorable mention for the 2023 Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize and as a finalist for Joyland’s 2022 Open Border Fiction Prize. She is currently working on a novel and a short story collection.