Alexis Paige

Alexis Paige is a writer and teacher based in Vermont who works in creative nonfiction and craft memoir. She is the author of Work Hard, Not Smart: How to Make a Messy Literary Life (Vine Leaves Press, 2022) and Not a Place on Any Map, a collection of flash essays. She also serves as Nonfiction Acquisitions Editor at Vine Leaves Press and is an Assistant Professor at Vermont State University. Her essays have appeared in journals such as Longform, Hippocampus, Fourth Genre, The Pinch, and Brevity, where she was an assistant editor from 2013 to 2019. She has been a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee and won the New Millennium Nonfiction Prize.