Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich was recently named a 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Creative Writing. She is writing a book of combined family memoir and literary journalism about a Louisiana murder and death penalty case entitled ANY ONE OF US. An essay adapted from the book was published in Oxford American and recognized as “notable” by Best American Essays 2013; it also appears in the anthology TRUE CRIME. In support of ANY ONE OF US, Alexandria has received a Rona Jaffe Award and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the Millay Colony for the Arts, Blue Mountain Center, Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, as well as the Alice Hayes Fellowship for Social Justice Writing from the Ragdale Foundation and a scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.