The Whirlpool Bath

Austin Alexis is the author of the chapbooks Lovers and Drag Queens and For Lincoln & Other Poems (both from Poets Wear Prada Press), and the full-length collection Privacy Issues (Broadside Lotus Press, Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award). His work has appeared in Rattle, Barrow Street, The Journal, Paterson Literary Review, Flash Boulevard, and elsewhere.

His plays have been performed and/or read at the Samuel French Short Plays Festival, Performance Space 122, the Vinyard Theater Festival, Tribeca Lab, and others. One of his essays was a finalist for the Kenyon Review Short Nonfiction Prize. He received first prize in the Great Weather for Media Press Flash Fiction of the Month Contest, and his poetry has been a “Pick of the Month” from Small Press Review and “Poem of the Week” on the Indolent Books Website. His poetry has received Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominations from The Westchester Review and Poets Wear Prada Press.

Alexis has received scholarships and residency fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico. He received an MA in Creative Writing from the Graduate Writing Program at NYU. A native New Yorker, he continues to live in the city of his birth, where he works on poetry, fiction, and book reviews, studies dance, and ushers at dance and theater venues. He has taught at Hunter College, Long Island University, and The College of New Rochelle.

Paperback: 118 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (October 3, 2025)

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