Alexa Will is a writer and educator based in St. Petersburg, FL. They received their B.A. in Literature and Creative Writing with a Spanish minor from the University of Pittsburgh, where they received the Susan Lippincott-Mack and Chris Mack Scholarship two years in a row and first fell in love with creative nonfiction, at the behest of a writing mentor who opened her up to the genre of autotheory. Currently, Alexa is pursuing an MFA at the University of South Florida, where they’re at work on an essay collection exploring femme art, performance, and longing. Formally, autotheory and hybridity are at the center of their work, as they find them to be the best modes for writing about their polyamory, bisexuality, and femmeness. A frequent symposium presenter, Alexa has presented her research “Extending Sara Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology through the Lens of Contemporary Praxis Theory” at the 63rd Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy and her research on “Femme’s Resistance is in the Performance” and “Femme’s Roaring Twenties” at the University of South Florida English Symposium. Her poetry, prose, and pedagogical writing has appeared in CRAFT Literary, Ouch! Collective, Creative Loafing, and Teachers & Writers. In their spare time, Alexa enjoys tending to her garden, water coloring, trying out new recipes from library cookbooks, drinking tea, and frolicking on the beach with her mini dachshunds, Otto Man Empire and Fig Newton.