Alex Myers

Myers was born in Paris, Maine.^[1] As a teenager, he attended Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire.^[2] He obtained a bachelor's degree from Harvard University, where he studied near Eastern languages and civilizations.^[3] While at Harvard he worked to have gender identity added to the school's nondiscrimination clause.^[4] Myers obtained an MA in religion from Brown University.^[3] He later studied fine arts at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.^[4]

Myers taught English at Phillips Exeter Academy, and currently serves as the director of the Mountain School of Milton Academy.^[5][6]

His first book Revolutionary was released in 2014.^[4][2] Based on the life of Deborah Sampson, the focus of the novel is a woman who disguises herself as a man in order to fight in the American Revolutionary War.^[7][8][9] The book was a finalist for the 2015 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction.^[10]

Released in 2019, his novel Continental Divide follows Ron Bancroft who grows up as a tomboy, comes out as a teenager and travels west to find himself.^[11][12] In an interview with New Hampshire Public Radio Myers discussed how his own experience with transitioning was reflected in the main character Ron in his novel Continental Divide explaining: "The parallels in my own life would be a rural childhood, a feeling of always being a boy despite society telling me that I was a girl, and then going off to a more urban college experience with a bit more exposure to a range of differences."^[13]

Myers' third book The Story of Silence (2020) is a retelling of Le Roman de Silence.^[14]