Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is an American author and former lawyer.
[6] Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, which received the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir or Biography,[7] the 2018 Chautauqua Prize, the 2019 Grand prix des lectrices de Elle in nonfiction, and was optioned by HBO to develop into a limited series.
[8][9] The book recounts the story of Marzano-Lesnevich being assigned to defend a pedophile and child murderer in Louisiana who killed and likely molested a six-year-old boy in 1992, and had their faith against the death penalty shaken after watching the man's videotaped confession.
[8][10] Marzano-Lesnevich is currently Assistant Professor and Rogers Communications Chair in Creative Non-Fiction at the University of British Columbia;[11][12] they were previously an Assistant Professor of English at Bowdoin College.
[13][2][14] They write extensively about transgender issues.