Alex Gilvarry

Alex Gilvarry (b. 1981 on Staten Island, NY) is an American writer. He is the author of the novels From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant (2012) and Eastman Was Here (2017).^[1][2] In 2009, Gilvarry graduated from CUNY - Hunter College's MFA Program in Creative Writing. He was included on the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 list in 2014, and Eastman Was Here was chosen as one of the best books of 2017 by Esquire.^[3][4] He is a professor of Creative Writing at Monmouth University in New Jersey.^[5] He lives on Staten Island and is married to the writer Alexandra Kleeman.