Alex Hughes
Alex K. Hughes (He/Him) has been published in Crazyhorse (now swamp pink) and Big Mudd. His story “A Rearing Pact” won the 2015 Crazyhorse Crazyshorts Short-Short fiction contest. Likewise, his short story “Crown” was a semifinalist in Nimrod‘s The Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction in 2020. He was raised in Illinois, just across the Mississippi from St. Louis. He holds a PhD in English with emphasis in both creative writing, fiction and literature 1900-present. He teaches English at Oklahoma State University.