Alex DiFrancesco is the author of Transmutation, All City, Psychopomps, and Breaking the Curse. Their work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Tin House, Brevity, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and more. They are a 2022 winner of the Ohio Arts Council's Individual Excellence Award, as well as the first transgender finalist in over 80 years of the Ohioana Book Awards.