This is an accepted version of this page Alex Gino (born October 1, 1977)[1] is a genderqueer American children's book writer.

[8] Gino expressed some regrets about deadnaming their character with this title, and in 2021 announced that they were renaming the novel Melissa's Story.

[29] Their 2020 novel, Rick, is a standalone follow-up to George and is about a student coming to terms with his asexuality.

[32] In 2022, Gino published the young adult novel, Alice Austen Lived Here about Sam and TJ, two nonbinary seventh graders in Staten Island conducting research on Alice Austen, a nearly forgotten 19th-century lesbian photographer.

[46] Additionally, Gino uses singular they pronouns[7] and the gender neutral honorific Mx.