Alexandra Naughton lives in Richmond, California. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Be About It Press, and the author of six poetry collections. Her first novel, American Mary, was published by Civil Coping Mechanisms in 2016. Her work straddles the line between fiction and non-fiction, prose and poetry, exploring themes such as self-objectification, existentialism, the frailty of text- based communication, and capitalism.