Alexander Lumans

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Alexander Lumans

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Alexander Lumans was awarded a 2018 NEA Creative Writing Grant in Fiction. He received fellowships in 2015 and 2024 for expeditions with The Arctic Circle Residency and he was the Spring 2014 Philip Roth Resident at Bucknell University. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Paris Review, Electric Literature, Guernica, Gulf Coast, Off Assignment, American Short Fiction, among other publications. He's received support from MacDowell, Yaddo, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Arteles Creative Center in Finland, Sewanee, Bread Loaf, and others. He lives in Berlin.

Classes with Alexander Lumans

This was my first class with Lumans, but it won't be my last. In addition to the central text, he offered excellent supplementary stories, articles, and reviews that resonated beautifully. The same can be said for his inspiring writing assignments. Lumans is warm, funny, unpretentious, all-inclusive, infinitely curious, smart, endlessly enthusiastic. In short: great class. Thanks, Lumans!
Ginny Threefoot

Alexander Lumans's Articles

The Lookout

What is Present

March 10, 2017

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