Alex M. Stein is an award winning writer and filmmaker living in New York’s Hudson Valley.
He has devoted his entire adult life to stories and storytelling and is a mainstay of local storytelling communities (first in Los Angeles and now in the Hudson Valley). He ran a weekly storytelling show for two years and has curated hundreds of story shows. He has won the Moth multiple times (and has also won the Artichoke, Write Club, and Bada Bing Bada Boom: True Stories Told for Cash). He is most recently the author of Rock ‘n’ Roll Manifesto and Other Stories (40 short pieces about how music seeps into our bones and propels us through life), Echoes of Iceland (42 brand-new, wholly original modern myths inspired by the Eastfjords of Iceland and written during an artist’s residency there), the short-story collection Tales From the Trail: Short Fiction About Dogs, Mushing, and Sled-Dog Races, and the personal essay collection No, Mr. Bond, I Expect Your Dreams To Die.
He recently won an Art of Creative Unity Award from the International Human Rights Arts Festival for his personal essay “Black Water.”
He has worked extensively in film and television development and works as a story consultant for production companies, studios, individual writers, and more.
Alex enjoys writing about himself in the third-person and would love it if you connect with him on BlueSky (which on good days is what Twitter once was), or on Facebook. He has Instagram, but is known to forget about it for months at a time. Notes on homing pigeons will work, too. Because all the cool kids are doing that.
Here’s a picture of gorgeous tortoiseshell cat Hekla P. Husavik, who is well known for having rocks in her head.
And here is tuxedo cat Bettles P. Kotzebue, who is a tireless punk. Why these photos? Because people love cat pics, that’s why.
