# Alex Jeffers

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{{short description|American novelist and short story writer}}
{{infobox writer
|name=Alex Jeffers
|occupation={{flatlist|
*Novelist
*short story writer
}}
|nationality=American
|awards=[Lambda Literary Award](/source/Lambda_Literary_Awards) (2014)
|relatives=[Robinson Jeffers](/source/Robinson_Jeffers) (grandfather)
}}
'''Alex Jeffers''' is an American novelist and short story writer. He is the grandson of [Robinson Jeffers](/source/Robinson_Jeffers). His work has appeared in ''The Pioneer'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://whitmanpioneer.com/author/alexjeffers/|title=Alex Jeffers: Articles|date=2014|publisher=The Pioneer|accessdate=2014-06-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809013550/http://whitmanpioneer.com/author/alexjeffers/|archive-date=2014-08-09|url-status=dead}}</ref> the ''[North American Review](/source/North_American_Review)'', ''Blithe House Quarterly'', and ''[Fantasy and Science Fiction](/source/Fantasy_and_Science_Fiction)''.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fEsGE1FMHaoC&q=alex+jeffers+north+american+review&pg=PT168|title=''Do You Remember Tulum?: Novella in the Form of a Love Letter''|last=Jeffers|first=Alex|date=2010|publisher=Lethe Press|page=159|isbn=9781590213483|accessdate=2014-06-10}}</ref> He also contributed to and served as an editor for the gay-oriented science fiction magazine ''Icarus'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tor.com/blogs/2010/12/queering-sff-icarus-the-magazine-of-gay-speculative-fiction|title=Queering SFF: ''Icarus'', the Magazine of Gay Speculative Fiction|last=Mandelo|first=Lee|date=December 30, 2010|publisher=[Tor Books](/source/Tor_Books)|accessdate=2014-06-10}}</ref> as well as overseeing the BrazenHead imprint of [Lethe Press](/source/Lethe_Press).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lethepressbooks.com/brazenhead.htm|title=BrazenHead|date=2014|publisher=[Lethe Press](/source/Lethe_Press)|accessdate=2014-06-10}}</ref>

Jeffers's novel ''The Padishah's Son and the Fox'' received the [2014 Lambda Literary Award](/source/26th_Lambda_Literary_Awards) for Gay Erotica,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nola.com/books/index.ssf/2014/06/lambda_literary_awards_rain_do.html|title=Looking for summer reading? Lambda Literary Awards rain down a host of choices|last=Waddington|first=Chris|date=June 3, 2014|newspaper=[The Times-Picayune](/source/The_Times-Picayune)|accessdate=2014-06-10}}</ref> while ''Deprivation; or, Benedetto Furioso: An Oneiromancy'' was also nominated in the [Science Fiction](/source/List_of_Lambda_Literary_Awards_winners_and_nominees_for_science_fiction%2C_fantasy_and_horror) category.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/26th-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists-and-winners/|title=26th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists and Winners|date=2014|publisher=Lambda Literary Foundation|accessdate=2014-06-10|archive-date=2019-04-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403104618/http://www.lambdaliterary.org/26th-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists-and-winners/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Jeffers had previously been nominated for a [Gaylactic Spectrum Award](/source/Gaylactic_Spectrum_Awards) in 2010.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Spectrum22010.html |title=2010 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards |last=Kelly |first=Mark |date=2011 |magazine=[Locus Publications](/source/Locus_(magazine)) |accessdate=2014-08-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130520150247/http://locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Spectrum22010.html |archivedate=2013-05-20 }}</ref>

==Bibliography==
*''Safe as Houses'' (1995)
*''Do You Remember Tulum?'' (2009)
*''The New People'' (2011)
*''The Abode of Bliss: Ten Stories for Adam'' (2011)
*''You Will Meet a Stranger Far from Home: Wonder Stories'' (2012)
*''Deprivation; or, Benedetto Furioso: An Oneiromancy'' (2013)
*''The Padishah's Son and the Fox'' (2013)
*''That Door is a Mischief'' (2014)

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140809041905/http://www.archerbarron.com/joyce-thompson-interviews-writers/ Interview with Alex Jeffers]

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