Alex Marzano-Lesnevich on The Fact of a Ghost

“The stakes [in this book] are whether or not I can make this claim to an identity that extends beyond the present moment and that is historical. That I can make this claim as part of a community whose members have often been made into ghosts.”

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir, which received a Lambda Literary Award, the Chautauqua Prize, and others. Marzano-Lesnevich has written for The New York Times, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Boston Globe, Oxford American, Harper’s, and The Best American Essays editions for both 2020 and 2022. Their next book, BOTH AND NEITHER, is gender-bending and genre-bending work of memoir, history, cultural analysis, trans re-imaginings, and international road trip about life beyond the binary. It is forthcoming from Doubleday.