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Gregory Alexander
One Diverse Background

From working the graveyard shift at an insane asylum to
working as a successful author is quite a stretch ... or is it?

Author Greg Alexander

Greg Alexander was born in New Orleans in the middle of the Baby Boom. After working the graveyard shift at an insane asylum and driving a forklift in a warehouse, he decided in the '80s that he had enough of a brain in his head to finish college. He earned a bachelor's degree in psychology and a masters in English.

He taught high school English for twelve years, including six at Jesuit of New Orleans, where he got some valuable experience for the writing of

The Holy Mark. Swearing never to come between rich kids and their parents again, Alexander quit teaching in 1999 to take an educational position with local government. Alexander started writing literary short fiction in the mid-Nineties and has had several stories published in independent and academic literary magazines nationwide, including the seminal version of his first novel in Emory University's Lullwater Review in 1998.

He has been a frequent book reviewer for the New Orleans Times Picayune and lives just outside the city in River Ridge, Louisiana, with Cody, the sweetest, dumbest black lab in southeastern Louisiana.

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