Alexis M. Wright
Instructor
About Alexis M.
Alexis Wright is a writer and educator whose work presents unfiltered observations in conversation with memory and history, and with texts and textures of the past. Her lyric essay “Which One is the Lifeline?” is forthcoming in The Common, and an excerpt was awarded first prize in Litquake's 'Writers on the Verge' contest in 2016. Her essay “The Disney Look” will be included in the anthology 'Mamas, Martyrs, and Jezebels: Myths, Legends, and Other Lies You’ve Been Told about Black Women' published by Black Lawrence Press. Alexis is an alumna of the Anaphora Writing Residency for Writers of Color and the Rooted and Written Conference and Fellowship, and she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco. After a decade teaching middle and high school English, she is now a curriculum developer at Facing History and Ourselves.