Alexis Paige is the author of two books by Vine Leaves Press, where she is also the CNF Acquisitions Editor. Work Hard, Not Smart: How to Make a Messy Literary Life, a craft memoir and ode to ADHD, is a Wishing Shelf Book Award Finalist and winner of three 2022 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards in the categories of Writing/ Publishing, Women’s Interests, and Disability Awareness. Paige’s memoir-in-flash about trauma, Not a Place on Any Map, won VLP’s Vignette Collection Award in 2016. Her work appears in many journals and anthologies, including Hippocampus Book’s Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction, Longform, The Rumpus, Fourth Genre, and Brevity, where she was an Assistant Editor from 2013-2019. Winner of the New Millennium Nonfiction Prize, Paige has also received two “Notable” mentions in Best American Essays and four Pushcart Prize nominations. Assistant Professor of Writing at Vermont State University, she holds an MA in poetry and an MFA in nonfiction. Paige lives in Vermont with her husband and a rotating cast of rescue animals. 

Website: alexispaigeauthor.com

Twitter Username: @lexissima

Publications

• Work Hard, Not Smart: How to Make a Messy Literary Life , Vine Leaves Press (February 1, 2022)
• Not a Place on Any Map , Vine Leaves Press (December 5, 2016)

Awards

• New Millenium Nonfiction Prize(2014)
• Vine Leaves Press Vignette Collection Award(2016)
• The Wishing Shelf Book Awards Finalist(2023)
• Royal Dragonfly Book Award: 2nd Place in Women's Interests(2023)
• Royal Dragonfly Book Award: 2nd Place in Disability Awareness(2023)
• Royal Dragonfly Book Awards: 1st Place in Writing/ Publishing
• Best American Essays Notable(2016)
• Best American Essays Notable(2018)

Employment

• Assistant Professor of Lit. & Writing at Vermont State University (August 2008 - )

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in English/ African-American Studies from University of New Hampshire (May 1997)
• Master of Arts in Creative Writing: Poetry from San Francisco State University (January 2008)
• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction from USM: Stonecoast MFA Program (July 2014)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Poetry