Alex Nolos is an author, editor, publisher, drag artist, and MSW candidate at the Silberman School of Social Work (class of ‘28) from Brooklyn. A graduate of Marymount Manhattan College's English and World Literature program, he has been writing and publishing his work since 2018, landing in publications like Catapult, Hominum Journal, Bloodletter Magazine, and Bookstr.com, where he worked as a staff writer. His debut novel, Cut and Save the Line, was published on 2/14/24. He is currently working on a project to preserve the FTM Newsletter and make it available in an accessible format. Previously, he worked as a publishing intern for Restless Books, a non-profit independent publisher based in Brooklyn.

Alex's writing originated as personal essays and pop culture articles, and has since expanded into fiction and the Substack newsletter Bratchet, as well as the Real Life Newsletter, a weekly zine for the NYC drag community. He also frequently volunteers his writing skills for non-profit organizations like the Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company, MEANS Database, and Telling Queer History. A list of his published work can be found on this website.

Among other achievements, in 2013, he was awarded "Best-Looking Cross-dresser" by his classmates.