ABOUT

Phoenix Alexander (he/him) is the Jay Kay and Doris Klein Librarian for Science Fiction and Fantasy at the University of California, Riverside, where he curates one of the world’s largest collections of catalogued science fiction. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Vector: the Journal of the British Science Fiction Association, and is a full member of the Science Fiction Writers Association (SFWA), the Horror Writers Association (HWA). He served as a judge for the Clarke Award in 2021 and 2022.

He trained as a fashion designer at Central Saint Martins before doing a BA and MA at Queen Mary, University of London. He completed his Ph.D. in English and African American Studies at Yale University.

Phoenix is a queer, Greek-Cypriot scholar and writer of science fiction himself. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Lightspeed, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Escape Pod, The Dark, and Science Fiction Studies, among others.

He is represented by Angeline Rodriguez at WME Books.