Alexis Hansen grew up moving across Alabama, Texas, and Arizona before returning to her birthplace in Utah where she’s been a caretaker of livestock on her family’s homestead ever since. She was homeschooled and has herded everything from goats, llamas, and pigs, to turkeys, ducks, chickens, bunnies, and plot bunnies alike.

The plot bunnies are by far the least cooperative. Someday, she will stop chasing them long enough to actually finish a novel, but that is not this day.

When she’s not reading, writing, or drawing, she spends way too much time lost in her own imagination. She also enjoys butting heads with her goats (not literally…most of the time), going on walks with her dogs, and fulfilling her honorable duty as a cat bed for her feline overlords. One of her greatest achievements was finally being accepted into the piglet cuddle pile.

Fantasy and science fiction have captured her interest and continue to hold it prisoner, but she occasionally dabbles in horror and contemporary fiction. She has also written poetry, which eludes her conscious mind and appears to have been a glitch in the system.

She’s an award-winning author whose previous publications also include:

The Function of Freedom: The League of Utah Writers 85th Anniversary Commemorative Anthology (LUW Press, 2020)

A Cold Christmas and the Darkest of Winters (Cinnabar Moth Publishing, 2021)

Beyond Beehives: Poetry & Prose Commemorating Utah’s First 125 Years of Statehood (LUW Press, 2021)

Art & Sedition: The League of Utah Writers 2022 Anthology (LUW Press, 2022)

Blood in the Water (Dark Recesses Press webzine)