Thanks for visiting my site! I’m Alexandra, aka Lexy, and my latest book UNDER SHIFTING STARS was released on September 29, 2020. For a description of the book, please visit Publications. To learn more about my inspiration and process writing it, please visit Author’s Note: Under Shifting Stars.
AUTHOR BIO
Alexandra has considered herself a writer her entire life. In fact, she won an award when she was only six years old for her story about a “dorphaned” bear. As a kid she liked walking to the drugstore to buy notebooks for her next story and forcing family members and friends to act in her plays.
Alexandra graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance, but after a few jobs in various treasury departments, she quickly realized the finance world wasn’t for her and returned to university to earn a Bachelor of Arts in English. Her true passion remains creative writing. She is currently completing her SSHRC-funded MFA in Creative Writing (Optional-Residency) program at UBC, where she has worked as a TA in multiple creative writing courses, and is also a mentor in the Alexandra Writers’ Centre Author Development program. She is working on a creative project with the support of Canada Council for the Arts.
Alexandra has published Young Adult and New Adult fiction. Her YA novel UNDER SHIFTING STARS won the 2020 W.O. Mitchell Book Prize. It was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, a Shelf Awareness starred selection, a CCBC a Best Books for Kids & Teens selection, and was highly recommended by School Library Journal and Canadian Review of Materials. She lives in Canada with her family and two black cats, one of whom thinks he’s a dog.
You can follow her on Instagram and Twitter at @alexandralatos.
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