V. N. Alexander

V. N. Alexander, Ph.D., is a literary fiction novelist, writing about censored and controversial subjects with audacity, humor, and compassion. Her honors include the Washington Prize for Fiction for Smoking Hopes, Dallas Observer‘s “Best of 2003” for Naked Singularity, and the Literary Fiction Book Review award for Locus Amoenus. The Girlie Playhouse will be published by Heresy Press in April 2026.

Alexander is also a philosopher of science. She is a 2020 Fulbright scholar, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center alum, a former Public Scholar for the New York Council for the Humanities and a director at the Dactyl Foundation, working on new and emerging concepts in science and encouraging interaction between the sciences and the arts. Her latest work on butterfly mimicry appears in Fine Lines: Nabokov’s Scientific Art (Yale University Press), which was among Nature's top books of 2017.