ABOUT ME

Alexa T. Dodd is a fiction writer, essayist, and freelance editor.

Selected Publications

Roots
Winner of the Nimrod International Journal Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction (Forthcoming Winter 2026)

The Distracted Writer Substack

The Blades of Ana Velasquez
Winner of the Uncharted Magazine Aftermath Short Story Award

Athena, the Octopus, Solves a Puzzle
Abandon Journal

What Five Years with a Predatory Vanity Press Taught Me About Art & Success
Literary Hub

Mother’s Milk
Puerto del Sol Magazine (2021 Prose Contest Winner)

This Something Else
Joie de Vivre Journal

Recipes that Aren’t Mine
Aquifer: The Florida Review Online

Ocean Life and Other Things I Learned From You
The After Happy Hour Review

Someday
The Write Launch (Issue 29)

His or Yours
The Heavy Feather Review

Midnight Feedings
River Teeth Journal: Beautiful Things 

Revealing the Tenacity of the Human Spirit: A Review of Sherrie Flick’s Thank Your Lucky Stars” 
Atticus Review

No Finis: Triangle Testimonies, 1911″ by Deborah Woodard
Heavy Feather Review 

Review: How It Was With Scotland by Joan Fiset
The Literary Review

When She Knew: Proof in the Day to Day
Verily Magazine

“A word after a word after a word is power”

Margaret Atwood