Alex Jennings is a writer, editor, teacher, and poet. Currently, he is the Program Director of DreamFoundry’s Con or Bust. He is also a fiction writing instructor at The University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program. He writes a speculative poetry review column in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction called “Chapter and Verse.”Jennings's writing has appeared in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Electric Velocipede, Uncanny Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, New Suns, and Current Affairs. His first book, the collection "Here I Come and Other Stories," was published in 2012. His first novel, "The Ballad of Perilous Graves," was published in 2022.